cheat

cheat is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
2. noun. One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.
3. noun. A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.
4. noun. The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.
5. noun. To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.
6. noun. To beguile.
7. intransitive verb. To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.
8. noun. Wheat, or bread made from wheat.
9. noun. a deception for profit to yourself

   Synonyms: cheating

10. noun. the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

    "that book is a fraud"

    Synonyms: rig, swindle

11. noun. someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

    Synonyms: beguiler, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster

12. noun. weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

    Synonyms: chess

13. noun. weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

    Synonyms: darnel, tare

14. verb. defeat someone through trickery or deceit

    Synonyms: chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft

15. verb. deprive somebody of something by deceit

    "The con-man beat me out of $50"

    "This salesman ripped us off!"

    Synonyms: chisel

16. verb. engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud

    "Who's chiseling on the side?"

    Synonyms: chisel

17. verb. be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

    "She cheats on her husband"

    "Might her husband be wandering?"

    Synonyms: betray, cuckold, wander

Synonyms

cheating, rig, swindle, beguiler, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster, chess, darnel, tare, chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft, chisel, betray, cuckold, wander

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cheat:

tache, teach, theca

Common word forms

cheats, cheated, cheater, cheating, cheatable

Words from these letters

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