fake news
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.58 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Purported news stories with false or misleading information, deliberately created to disinform.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Never trust fake news websites."
- "The scourge of “fake news”, pumped out by online bots and Russian troll farms, suggested that the authority of professional journalism had been fatally damaged by the rise of social media."