fraudster
/ˈfɹɔdstɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.49 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who carries out fraud; a swindler.
Example Sentences
- "2016 Eric Andrew-Gee Why and how Ontarians change their names in the 21st century The Globe and Mail With a few exceptions, all those changes were published in the Ontario Gazette, a little-read compendium of government business that comes out every week. The province requires this by law, as do most Canadian jurisdictions, nominally to thwart fraudsters and deadbeats."
- "CPS MerseyCheshire welcomes the jailing of Helen Dove who conned her friend into giving up her job for a dream post that never existed. Kimberley McDonnell lost around £50,000 because of the fraudster."
- "Northern has made it harder for fraudsters to cheat checks on barcode season tickets. The operator has made it impossible for people to screenshot tickets from within the Northern app and then share the tickets for others to use."
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle English fraude English fraud Proto-West Germanic *-astrijā Old English -estre Middle English -estere English -ster English fraudster From fraud + -ster.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɹɔdstɚ/
- British English: /ˈfɹɔːdstə/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
confabulator
pathological liar
deadbeat
pious fraud
deceive
dupe
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