fraud: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 9 letter points · starts with F · ends with D
Meaning of fraud
noun
- countable, uncountable
The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
- countable, uncountable
Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
- countable, uncountable
The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
- countable, uncountable
A person who performs any such trick.
Listed forms: frauds.
Source: Wiktionary — fraud.
verb
- obsolete, transitive
To defraud.
Listed forms: frauds, frauding, frauded.
Source: Wiktionary — fraud.
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 fraud.
noun
a person who makes deceitful pretenses
noun
something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
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 fraud in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of fraud
F(4) + R(1) + A(1) + U(1) + D(2) = 9 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 fraud
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from fraud
8 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in fraud. Showing up to 24, longest first.