guile

guile is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 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 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
2. noun. To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude.
3. noun. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

   Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, shenanigan, trickery, wile

4. noun. the quality of being crafty

   Synonyms: craftiness, deceitfulness

5. noun. shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

   Synonyms: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness

Synonyms

chicane, chicanery, shenanigan, trickery, wile, craftiness, deceitfulness, craft, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness

Common word forms

guiled, guiler, guiles, guiling, guileful, guileless

Words from these letters

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