cheat: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 10 letter points · starts with C · ends with T
Meaning of cheat
verb
- intransitive
To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
Example: My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.
- intransitive
To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
Example: My husband cheated on me with his secretary.
- transitive
To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
Example: He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.
- transitive
To deceive; to fool; to trick.
Example: My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.
Listed forms: cheats, cheating, cheated.
Source: Wiktionary — cheat.
noun
- countable
An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- countable
Someone who cheats.
- uncountable
The weed cheatgrass.
- uncountable
Synonym of bullshit (“a card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies”).
Listed forms: cheats.
Source: Wiktionary — cheat.
noun
- obsolete, uncountable
A sort of low-quality bread.
Source: Wiktionary — cheat.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for cheat.
noun
weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
noun
weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
- chess
- Bromus secalinus
noun
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
noun
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is cheat in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of cheat
C(3) + H(4) + E(1) + A(1) + T(1) = 10 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of cheat
3 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from cheat
34 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in cheat. Showing up to 24, longest first.