fraudulence
/ˈfɹɔ.d͡ʒə.ləns/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.55 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I ſuppoſe ſome of my friends, to whom I read the firſt part, gave notice of my deſign, and, perhaps, ſold the treacherous intelligence at a higher price than the fraudulence of trade will now allow me for my book."
- "We should therefore not make too much of the fraudulence of all that on-screen wailing. Just because North Korean TV never films anything before rehearsing all spontaneity out of it does not mean the average citizen was unmoved."
- "Among other fraudulences, Enron perfected the art of “mark to market” accounting, tagging mere estimates of future profits as actual on-the-books assets."
Etymology
From Old French fraudulence, from Latin fraudulentia (“deceitfulness, disposition to defraud; fraudulence”), from fraudulentus (“deceitful, fraudulent”) + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns). Fraudulentus is derived from fraus (“deceit, fraud”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrew- (“to mislead”)) + -ulentus (“abounding in, full of”).
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
- Root: fraudulence, fraudulentia, *dʰrew-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɹɔ.d͡ʒə.ləns/
- British English: /ˈfɹɔː.djʊ.l(ə)ns/