dupery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Quackery and dupery do abound; in religions, above all in the more advanced decaying stages of religions."
- "Far more widespread than ticket dupery is another form of "misrepresentation" also recently under fire."
- "Mr. Abel, who lives in Westport, Conn., has earned his bread as a writer and lecturer on problem-solving tactics, and he has earned a reputation as a duke of dupery since 1959, when he masterminded the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin upupader. Vulgar Latin ūppader. Old French huppeder. Middle French duppe French duperbor. English dupe Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English dupery From dupe + -ery.