fake

fake is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
2. transitive verb. To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.
3. transitive verb. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
4. transitive verb. To make; to construct; to do.
5. transitive verb. To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
6. noun. A trick; a swindle.
7. noun. (football) a deceptive move made by a football player

   Synonyms: juke

8. noun. something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

   Synonyms: postiche, sham

9. noun. a person who makes deceitful pretenses

   Synonyms: faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, sham, shammer

10. verb. speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths

    "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it"

    Synonyms: bull, bullshit

11. verb. make a copy of with the intent to deceive

    "he faked the signature"

    "they counterfeited dollar bills"

    Synonyms: counterfeit, forge

12. verb. tamper, with the purpose of deception

    "Fudge the figures"

    "cook the books"

    Synonyms: cook, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle

13. adjective. fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

    Synonyms: bastard, bogus, phoney, phony

14. adjective. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article

    "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"

    "faux pearls"

    Synonyms: false, faux, imitation, simulated

Synonyms

juke, postiche, sham, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, shammer, bull, bullshit, counterfeit, forge, cook, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle, bastard, bogus, phoney

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in fake:

feak

Common word forms

faked, faker, fakes, fakeer, fakest, faking, fakement

Words from these letters

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