Definitions for fake

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Spelling: [feyk]
IPA: /feɪk/

Fake is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in fake (aefk).

Definitions for fake

noun

  1. anything made to appear otherwise than it actually is; counterfeit:
  2. a person who fakes; faker:
  3. a spurious report or story.
  4. Sports. a simulated play or move intended to deceive an opponent.
  5. any complete turn of a rope that has been faked down.
  6. any of the various ways in which a rope may be faked down.

adjective

  1. designed to deceive or cheat; not real; counterfeit.

Verb phrases

  1. fake out, Slang. to trick; deceive: to surprise, as by a sudden reversal:

verb (used with object)

  1. prepare or make (something specious, deceptive, or fraudulent):
  2. to conceal the defects of or make appear more attractive, interesting, valuable, etc., usually in order to deceive:
  3. to pretend; simulate:
  4. to accomplish by trial and error or by improvising:
  5. to trick or deceive (an opponent) by making a fake (often followed by out):
  6. Jazz. to improvise: to play (music) without reading from a score.
  7. to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).

verb (used without object)

  1. to fake something; pretend.
  2. to give a fake to an opponent.

Origin of fake

1805-15; orig. vagrants' slang: to do for, rob, kill (someone), shape (something); perhaps variant of obsolete feak, feague to beat, akin to Dutch veeg a slap, vegen to sweep, wipe

Examples for fake

fake Twitter handles started appearing for members of its fake cast.

But if I could live in an economy where everyone had the privilege to be rude rather than the obligation to fake it, I would.

Yes, that was a fake by which men lived on their mistresses!

If that fake agreement is still in existence, I'll get it for you.

If I signed that fake confession Hawk Kennedy signed it too.

That word is fake, and so is the note, and the whole infernal business!

However, Martin redeemed himself when correctly guessing a fake expletive-laden clue read by Meyers.

He cast her as Hope, an ex-addict with an impressive pair of fake chompers—the result of years of drug abuse.

If it's all a fake of his, how came you to have heard of Braybridge paddling the canoe back for her?

It was ignored at the time because the now-famous letter is also famously a fake.

Word Value for fake
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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