Definitions for hoax

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Spelling: [hohks]
IPA: /hoʊks/

Hoax is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in hoax (ahox).

Definitions for hoax

noun

  1. something intended to deceive or defraud:

verb (used with object)

  1. to deceive by a hoax; hoodwink.

Origin of hoax

First recorded in 1790-1800; perhaps contraction of hocus

Examples for hoax

"It does not sound like a hoax," commented Admiral Timworth, at last.

If this is all a hoax, Detweiler is a master of the charade.

What an odd thing it would be, aunt, if this should be all a hoax!'

Jacintha Saldanha died in 2012, after receiving the hoax call to a London hospital treating the Duchess of Cambridge.

I found it in vain to question him, and I suspect it is a hoax.

Then it is no hoax after all; and I've been sitting down to dinner with a smuggler!'

Almost immediately it was announced that the news of the victory had been a hoax.

Hardly anyone, certainly no polite person, ever mentions the Tawana Brawley hoax anymore.

At the time, authorities in Leizhou denied the reports, asserting that the newspaper had been the victim of a hoax.

Are American leaders to pretend now that they perpetrated a hoax on Ukrainian leaders?

Word Value for hoax
Scrable

14

Words with friends

13

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