Definitions for charlatan

charlatan char·la·tan

Spelling: [shahr-luh-tn]
IPA: /ˈʃɑr lə tn/

Charlatan is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in charlatan (aaachlnrt).

Definitions for charlatan

noun

  1. a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack.

Origin of charlatan

1595-1605; Middle French Italian ciarlatano, equivalent to ciarla(tore) chatterer (derivative of ciarlare to chatter; from imitative root) + (cerre)tano hawker, quack, literally, native of Ce

Examples for charlatan

Read a cautionary tale about the seductive and dangerous power of a charlatan sociopath, featuring goats and the American Dream.

Hugh could not help thinking there was more or less of the charlatan about the man.

This was no charlatan that spoke to him, but one in earnest who believed what he said.

Where is the difference, after all, between you and any charlatan of the lot?

The charlatan, however, steadily refused the Bishop's advice.

Surely nobody would be a charlatan who could afford to be sincere.

In our shock at the way things have turned out, we wonder if there is anyone left in charge who's not a charlatan or a fool.

charlatan is an unfair word,” Kennedy opined, but “he did an awful lot for effect.

If I were a mountebank or a charlatan I would claim that it cures a hundred diseases.

And the gratitude I get is this charlatan chose not to do his job, which is to write.

Word Value for charlatan
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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