swindle

swindle is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.
2. noun. The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
3. noun. the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

   "that book is a fraud"

   Synonyms: cheat, rig

4. verb. deprive of by deceit

   "He swindled me out of my inheritance"

   "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"

   Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam

Synonyms

cheat, rig, bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, victimize

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in swindle:

windles

Common word forms

swindled, swindler, swindles, swindling, swindleable

Words from these letters

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