Definitions for hoaxes

hoaxes hoax

Spelling: [hohks]
IPA: /hoʊks/

Hoaxes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in hoaxes (aehosx).

Definitions for hoaxes

noun

  1. something intended to deceive or defraud:

verb (used with object)

  1. to deceive by a hoax; hoodwink.

Origin of hoaxes

First recorded in 1790-1800; perhaps contraction of hocus

Examples for hoaxes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for hoaxes
Scrable

14

Words with friends

13

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