Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

three-card monte

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.67 in modern English

Syllables: three---card -monte
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A confidence game in which the victim, or mark, is tricked into betting a sum of money that they can find the money card, for example the queen of hearts, among three face-down playing cards.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"A starry 20th-anniversary revival of “Topdog/Underdog,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning fable about two brothers, three-card monte and one troubling inheritance, is in previews on Broadway."

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

three-card montes (plural)

Phrases

shell game

Frequently Paired Words

shell game tosser

Synonyms

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Questions

What does three-card monte mean?: A confidence game in which the victim, or mark, is tricked into betting a sum of money that they can find the money card, for example the queen of hearts, among three face-down playing cards.

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