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Definition: Cheat |
CheatNoun1. Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous. 2. Weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat. 3. Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true. 4. The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme: "that book is a fraud". 5. A deception for profit to yourself. Verb1. Deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money". 2. Defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit. 3. Engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?". 4. Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cheat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Multilingual Slang | German (bescheißen), Russian (zalupat'). (references) |
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Synonyms: CheatSynonyms: bearded darnel (n), beguiler (n), cheater (n), cheating (n), chess (n), darnel (n), deceiver (n), slicker (n), swindle (n), tare (n), trickster (n), beat (v), betray (v), cheat on (v), chicane (v), chisel (v), chouse (v), cuckold (v), jockey (v), rip off (v), screw (v), shaft (v), wander (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deceiver | Conjuror, juggler, trickster, prestidigitator, jockey; crimp, decoy, decoy duck; rogue, knave, cheat; swindler; (thief); jobber. |
Deception | Verb: deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle; trick. |
Trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem; (artifice); confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft; ballot-box stuffing barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game; shell game, thimblerig; skin game. | |
Memory | Prompt-book; crib sheet, cheat sheet. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Cheat. Cheat like crazy (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) Not only are you a cheat, you're a gutless cheat as well (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward) Most of 'em just cheat on you. (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith) Don't cheat. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) Vice, virtue, it's best not to be too moral - you cheat yourself out of too much life (Harold and Maude; writing credit: Colin Higgins) | |
Lyrics | You can cheat him (Another One Bites The Dust; performing artist: Queen; writing credit: John Deacon) Give me someone who won’t lie and won’t cheat on me (Ohh It's Kinda Crazy; performing artist: Soul Decision) I should have known better than to cheat a friend, (Careless Whisper; performing artist: Wham!) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Trick or Cheat (1966) The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) Sweet Cheat (1949) The Beautiful Cheat (1946) | |
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![]() | A closeup look at Burke, the latest pinto bean from ARS and university plant scientists. It resists a host of harmful fungi and viruses that can otherwise cheat growers of a bountiful harvest. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. | Cheat GrassSalmon FIeld OfficeUCSCUpper Columbia Salmon Clearwater District. Credit: Scott Feldhausen. | |
![]() | Buckhorn Wall, Cheat River. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Cheat River at Buckhorn Wall. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Cheat Mountain, Buckeye Wall. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
John Dryden | When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. |
Samuel Johnson | Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutoeus maximus. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Dennis Miller | Men will lie, cheat, and take advantage of the most fragile emotional states in order to get laid, true. |
Joan Rivers | In school. I watch my diet all the time. Truly, truly, I watch my diet, but I cheat. I live on Cool Whip. I am an all inside plastic person. |
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| "Cheat" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 53.65% of the time. "Cheat" is used about 356 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 53.65% | 191 | 22,216 |
| Noun (singular) | 35.11% | 125 | 28,650 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.24% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Total | 100.00% | 356 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cheat": cheat at cards ♦ cheat Lake ♦ cheat on ♦ cheat on smb. ♦ cheat oneself ♦ cheat sheet ♦ cheat smb. ♦ cheat smb. out of smth. ♦ downy cheat. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "cheat": love-cheat. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cheat | 27,096 | pc game cheat | 3,079 |
cheat code | 26,378 | gamecube cheat | 2,684 |
cheat planet | 19,913 | pc cheat | 2,677 |
ps2 cheat | 16,638 | cheat city gta vice | 2,500 |
cheat code warcraft | 16,104 | pokemon cheat | 2,494 |
game cheat | 15,044 | video game cheat | 2,383 |
x box cheat | 11,574 | grand theft auto 3 cheat | 2,359 |
play station 2 cheat | 11,276 | the sims cheat code | 2,238 |
sims cheat | 7,140 | diablo 2 cheat | 2,204 |
ps2 cheat code | 7,009 | cell cheat splinter | 2,186 |
cheat code central | 6,750 | cheat pokemon ruby | 2,133 |
cheat enter matrix | 6,672 | 2 cheat club midnight | 2,086 |
play station cheat | 6,505 | cheat planet.com | 1,936 |
cheat code play station 2 | 5,387 | cheat runescape | 1,892 |
neopets cheat | 5,268 | cheat hulk | 1,879 |
cheat city vice | 5,122 | cheat code enter matrix | 1,839 |
auto cheat city grand theft vice | 5,063 | warcraft 3 cheat | 1,717 |
cheat cc | 4,590 | 2 box cheat club midnight x | 1,628 |
x box cheat code | 4,453 | counter strike cheat | 1,601 |
play station cheat and code | 3,187 | roller coaster tycoon cheat | 1,531 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "cheat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | ploert (crook, rogue, scoundrel), bedrieg (be, be unfaithful, be unfaithful to, deceive), bedrieër (deceiver, fraud, imposter), bedrië (be, be unfaithful, be unfaithful to, deceive). (various references) | |
Albanian | mashtrues (ambidextrous, artful, bilker, bluffer, bouncer, catchy, Crimp, deceitful, deceiver, deceptive, delusive, delusory, diddler, dishonest, dodger, double, double dealing, double-dealer, finagler, fraud, fraudulent, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, Jack-in-the-box, mendacious, misleading, mountebank, pettifogger, pettifogging, phoney, quack, racketeer, rascal, rascally, rogue, sandman, shuffler, skin, snide, swindler, trickster, twister, two-tongued), mashtroj (bamboozle, befool, beguile, besot, bilk, chicane, chisel, cozen, deceive, defalcate, defraud, delude, diddle, do, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, fudge, gyp, hocus, hoodwink, hose, impose, jockey, juggle, lead on, mislead, mump, nobble, overreach, palter, queer, ready up, shortchange, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride), mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunco, bunko, caper, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, cozenage, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, duplicity, fake, false pretences, falsity, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gag, gammon, gimmick, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, juggler, jugglery, juggling, leasing, lie, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racket, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, rig, roguery, sham, swindle, take in, trick), hileqar (blackleg, fraudulent, tricky), hedh (aim, cast, chuck, dart, dash, diddle, discard, dispose of, down-load, drop, evade, flash, fling, flip, fob, fob off, have, heave, hose, hurl, land, launch, pitch, pour out, project, push, rain, release, scrap, send, set down, sink, sling, spill, sprinkle, strew, swing, tap, throw, throw away, throw down, throw over, toss, touch off, transfer, winnow), gaboj (betray, deceive, delude, disappoint, err, fraud, lapse, let down, make a mistake, mistake, seduce, swindle), gënjej (bamboozle, beguile, deceive, defraud, fib, frig, gull, lie, string along with, tell fibs, tell lies), bëj hile (chicane, overreach, use cunning), çapkën (crook, naughty, puckish, rogue, urchin). (various references) | |
Arabic | غش (adulterate, adulteration, bilk, cheating, copy, debase, deceit, deceive, deception, defraudation, diddle, falsify, fudge, jiggery pokery, nobble, rig, sell, short, sting, swindle), خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), خداع (artifice, beguilement, bluff, bluffing, cheating, chicanery, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defraudation, delusion, double dealing, dupery, duplicity, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, humbuggery, imposture, knavery, mystification, roguery, spoof, swindle, swindling, trickery, victimization, wile), المحتال (artist, bluffer, crook, dodger, impostor, juggler, kite, knave, queue jumper, rook, shark, sharper, skin, swindler), الغشاش (sharper, swindler), البرومس عشب (chess), إحتيال (cheating, embezzlement, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, humbug, hustle, jugglery, knavery, racket, rascality, roguery, swindle, victimization), إحتال (do, finesse, gull, gyp, pluck, trick, victimize, wangle, work), شىء زائف (falsity, gold brick, imitation, simulation). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | надхитрям (circumvent, outflank, outfox, outmaneuver, outsmart, outwit, overreach, pip), мошеничество (blackguardism, dishonesty, fraudulence, harlotry, have, knavery, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, roguery, skin, skuldggery, swiz, thimblerig, trickery), мошеник (blackguard, crook, dead beat, deadbeat, dodger, grafter, gyp, hustler, jongleur, knave, palmer, picaroon, rogue, scoundrel, sham, shark, sharp, skin, trickster, varlet, wretch), залъгвам (put off, stay, string along, trepan), подхлъзвам (diddle, do smb., dupe, fool, take smb. for a ride, trick), подлъгвам (dupe, entice, fool, humbug, trick), изневерявам (commit adultery, fail), измамник (ambidextrous, bilk, bilker, counterfeit, deceiver, double-dealer, fake, fiddler, fraud, gyp, impostor, intake, juggler, ringer, rook, sharp, sharpy, slicker, swindler), измама (bunco, bunko, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery, twist), изигравам (bamboozle, con, diddle, do smb., fob, hoodwink, let in, milk, outwit, play out, prey, sell, skin, skunk, suck in, trepan, trick, trim). (various references) | |
Chinese | 賺 (earn, make a profit, swindle), 欺诈 (Beguile, beguiled, Beguiling, Cheated, Cheating, Defraud, Defrauded, Defrauding). (various references) | |
Czech | podvodník (con man, confidence trickster, conman, crook, deceiver, dodger, fake, fiddler, fraud, impostor, juggler, phoney, phony, racketeer, rascal, runner, shark, sharper, swindler, trickster), podvést (deceive, defraud, double cross, dupe, fool, guile, let down, pluck, rope, swindle, take advantage of, victimize), ošidit (beguile, con, defraud, diddle, pigeon, swindle, trick), napálit (bamboozle, beat, con, dupe, fool, hoax, slog, take in), falešný hráè (rook), švindlovat (be on the fiddle, chouse), šidit (fiddle). (various references) | |
Danish | bedrage (deceive). (various references) | |
Dutch | schurkachtig handelen (do something crooked). (various references) | |
Esperanto | trompi (deceive), trompanto (deceiver, imposter), mistifikaĉi (defraud, fool, swindle), mensogisto (deceiver, imposter), fripono (crook, rogue), friponi (do something crooked), ĉarlatani (bilk, take in). (various references) | |
Faeroese | svíkja (deceive, defraud, swindle), snýta (deceive), skálkur (crook, rogue), lumpa (deceive), bakbeist (crook, rogue). (various references) | |
Farsi | فریب دادن (Bob, Deceive, Delude, Dissimulate, Doin, Fool, Hoodwink, Hum, Humbug, Jape, Mislead), فریب (Abusive, Deceit, Deception, Defraud, Delusion, Fiction, Humbug, Intake, Jazz, Lurch, Lure, Mace, Seducement, Sophistry, Swindle, Temptation, Wile), گول زدن (Bamboozle, Beguile, Cajole, Con, Deceive, Defraud, Doodle, Dupe, Entrap, Fool, Gaff, Gouge, Gull, Gum, Gyp, Hoax, Hustle, Jockey, Outwit, Rogue, Swindle, Wheedle), گول (Bilk, Cajole, Cajolery, Crimp, Deception, Gull, Humbug, Jape), خدعه کردن , جرزدن , ادم متقلب وفریبنده . (various references) | |
Finnish | vilpistellä (be deceitful), väärinpelaaja (card-sharper), roisto (crook, knave, rascal, rogue, scoundrel, villain), puijata (diddle, trick), pimittää (darken, dim, obscure, withhold information on one's income), pettää (betray, deceive, delude, let down), petkuttaja (impostor, swindler), petkuttaa (fool, pull a person's leg, swindle, take in, trick), narrata (dupe, fool, take in), luntata, huiputtaa (diddle, dupe, fool), huijata (diddle, swindle), huijari (swindler), harjoittaa vilppiä (practise cheating). (various references) | |
French | tromper, tricher, frauder. (various references) | |
Frisian | stjonkert (crook, rogue), skoelje (crook, rogue), ferrifelje (deceive), bemiterje (deceive), bedrager (deceiver, imposter), bedraaie (deceive). (various references) | |
German | betrügen (be unfaithful, cheat on, deceive, defraud, dupe, fool, rook, swindle, to cheat, to deceive, to defraud, to trepan, trick), täuschen (be deceptive, beguile, bluffs, deceive, delude, divert, fake, feint, fool, Fox, hoodwink, mystify, to bluff, to deceive, to delude, to hoodwink, to mystify), mogeln (finagle, to cheat, to finagle). (various references) | |
Greek | κλέβω (elope, filch, nab, pick pockets, pinch, purloin, snaffle, snitch, steal, thieve), απατώ (bamboozle, beguile, bilk, bluff, chisel, circumvent, con, deceive, dupe, fool, gouge, gyp, hoax, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, rook, sham, shave, shortchange, spoof, swindle, trick). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | çapkën (crook, rogue). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"ו ות (beguile, deceive, defraud, fraud, sting, swindle), לרמות (bamboozle, deceit, deceive, dupe, fob, fool, hoodwnk, humbug, shortchange, sting, swindle, take for a ride, take in), רמאי (cheater, cheating, deceiver, duper, fraudulent, humbug, impostor, mountebank, ringer, rogue, scoundrel, sharper, sneaky, swindler, trickster), רמאות (bluff, cheating, deceit, deception, double cross, double dealing, dupery, fraud, jiggery pokery, knavery, sell, skullduggery, swindle, trickery). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csalás (a plant, bubble, cheating, chisel, chouse, collusion, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, delusion, fake, fallacy, falsehood, foul play, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gouge, gyp, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, let in, racket, roguery, scam, sell, snide, swindle, swizzle, trickery). (various references) | |
Icelandic | svíkja (deceive). (various references) | |
Indonesian | cipoa (decieve), menyontek, menipu (cozen, deceive, deceptive, defraud, delude, double-cross, dupe, hoodwink, outfox), mencontek, mencatut (pull, swindle). (various references) | |
Italian | truffare (deceive, defraud, fudge, palter, swindle), ingannare (abuse, bamboozle, be mistaken, be wrong, beguile, bluff, cod, deceive, delude, do, dupe, fool, Fox, gull, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, impose, kid, lie, mislead, stall, swindle, trick, trickery, victimise, victimize), imbroglione (blackleg, deceiver, fraud, frauds, imposter, slicker, swindler, trickster), imbrogliare (cozen, diddle, do, embroil, entangle, entrap, fob, fool, garble, get confused, get entangled, get tangled, hocus, mix up, mystify, overreach, rook, sell, spoof, swindle, tangle, trick), barare. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | カンジダ膣炎 (border, Cambodia, Cambrian, campaign, camphor, candidal vaginitis, cantabile, cantaloupe, cantata, canvas, canzone, cedilla, comma, company, company economist, company magazine, company paper, company union, conversation, country, country and western, country club, country music, country risk, country wear, cunning, fund raising, Kant, school, torch, vaginal yeast infection), 如何様師 (swindler). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いかさまし (swindler), カンニング (cunning). (various references) | |
Korean | 속임수. (various references) | |
Manx | rap (counterfeit coin, jot, rogue), molteyr (charlatan, con man, confidence trickster, counterfeit, deceiver, deluder, duper, fraud, impostor), molleyder (beguiler, disappointer), kialgeyr (con man, deceitful person, deceiver, double-dealer, fiddler, fly boy, hypocrite, illusionist, plotter, schemer, swindler, trickster, twister), cleader (beguiler, knave). (various references) | |
Norwegian | snyte (deceive), jukse, bedra (deceive, fool). (various references) | |
Papiamen | kanaya (crook, rogue), desgrasiadu (crook, rogue), desgrasiado (crook, rogue). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eatchay.(various references) | |
Polish | łotr (crook, rogue). (various references) | |
Portuguese | iludir (avoid, baffle, beguile, bluff, bypass, catch, deceive, delude, dodge, double-cross, elude, ensnare, evade, hocus-pocus, humbug, impose, lie, mystify, outwit, sklent, trick, wile), fraude (bilk, brogue, cross, deceit, deception, graft, guile, humbug, inveracity, ruse, sham, skulduggery, spoof, trickery, wile), enganar (abuse, avoid, bamboozle, befool, beguile, belie, blind, bluff, chisel, chouse, cod, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, double, double-cross, duck, dupe, err, fake, falsify, finesse, flimflam, fob, foist, fool, fox, gag, gammon, gouge, green, gull, gyp, ha, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hum, humbug, impose, inveigle, jink, jockey, juggle, lace, lie, lurch, mislead, mock, mystify, out-jockey, overreach, palm, rip off, skin, sklent, spoof, take in, trepan, trick, victimize, wangle, wile). (various references) | |
Romanian | trişa (cog, do something crooked, pigeon, rook), înşela (abuse, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, chouse, circumvent, cog, con, cozen, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, disappoint, do, do brown, do something crooked, double cross, dupe, fiddle, frustrate, gag, get round, gull, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, mystify, nobble, out-jockey, pigeon, queer, ramp, rook, sharp, shuffle, swindle, trick, victimize). (various references) | |
Russian | обманывать (befool, beguile, bilk, deceive, deceiving, defraud, delude, disappoint, do, double cross, flimflam, fob, fool into thinking, gag, gull, hocus, hoodwink, impose, jockey, juggle, kid, mump, practise deceit, practise deception, prey, pull a fast one, swindle, victimize). (various references) | |
Scottish | meall (a lump, beguile, deceive, defraud, disappoint, entice, lump, mass, mound). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | varati (betray, chicane, chouse, deceive, swindle, wile), prevariti (bamboozle, beguile, bilk, chicane, chisel, chouse, circumvent, con, deceive, diddle, double cross, flimflam, fool, get round, gyp, hoodwink, mulct, rook, rope, rope in, screw, set up, skunk, stick, string along, take in, trick, victimize), prevarant (bilker, chouse, confidence trickster, deceiver, fake, faker, wheeler dealer), prevara (bilk, blind, bubble, chicanery, confidence trick, deceit, deception, dodge, double cross, dupery, eyewash, fake, flimflam, fraud, gammon, guile, gyp, plant, racket, ruse, setup, trick, trumpery), podvaliti (gouge, gull, hoax, swindle, welch, welsh), obmanuti (bluff, deceive, delude, mislead, trick). (various references) | |
Spanish | engañar (bamboozle, be deceptive, befool, beguile, belie, betray, bilk, bite, bluff, buffalo, cheat on, circumvent, con, cozen, deceive, delude, do a room, double cross, dupe, fob, fool, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, kill, mislead, mystify, outsmart, pull a fast one, put across, put off, put over, put upon, spoof, stay, swindle, take in, trick, while away), embustero (deceiver, fabricator, fibber, imposter, impostor, liar, lying), timar (chisel, do, gull, swindle, trick). (various references) | |
Sranan | ley (deceive, lie, tell a lie), kori (caress, chuck, deceive, flatter, fondle, stroke), kasyo (deceive). (various references) | |
Swedish | bedra (beat, betray, cheat on, cozen, deceive, defraud, dupe, Fox, gyp, humbug, impose upon, sell, swindle, trick, two time), narras (fib, tell a fib), lura (bamboozle, beat, befool, beguile, chicane, chisel, chouse, clip, cod, con, cozen, deceive, decoy, delude, diddle, do, do down, dope, double cross, double-cross, dupe, entrap, euchre, flay, fool, Fox, gaff, gudgeon, gull, have, hoax, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoodwink, hook, humbug, impose, inveigle, jockey, kid, lure, out-jockey, overreach, rip off, rook, sell, short-change, swindle, trick), fuska (botch, crib, dabble, faked, frame up, scamp), bedragare (bilker, crook, deceiver, defrauder, double-dealer, fraud, imposter, impostor, juggler, sharper, swindler), bedraga (beat, betray, cheat on, cozen, deceive, defraud, dupe, Fox, gyp, humbug, impose upon, sell, swindle, trick, two time). (various references) | |
Thai | นอกใจ, สิ่งที่หลอกลวง, การหลอกลวง (duplicity, hoax, humbug, lie, mountebankery, sleight, swindle), การค"โกง, ทุจริต, หลอกลวง (betray, dupe, euchre, fake out, fiddle, fool, fox, fudge, gull, hoax, humbug, mountebank), คนโกง. (various references) | |
Turkish | aldatmak (bamboozle, be unfaithful, bilk, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, do down, double cross, fake, feint, finagle, Fox, gammon, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, palter, play smb. false, put it over on, sell, sell smb. a packet, sell smb. a pup, spoof, string, stuff smb., take for a ride, take in, trick, two time, victimize). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kezzap (swindler). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | самозванець (counterfeit, impersonator, impostor), шахраювати (cog, cozen, dodge, fake, gyp, humbug, play foul, poach, rogue, sharp), шахрайство (bamboozle, bilk, deception, dishonesty, dodge, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, imposture, pettifogging, racket, racketeering, rascality, roguery, shave, skulduggery), шахрай (beat, bilker, charlatan, deceiver, doer, gambler, jockey, knave, phony, picaroon, prick, racketeer, rascal, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, shark, sharp, sharper, swindler), ошуканець (bluffer, charlatan, deceiver), обманювати (baffle, bam, beguile, begunk, betray, bluff, bubble, buffalo, chouse, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, do down, double cross, gouge, impose, mountebank, swindle, trick, victimize), обманщик (bluff, bluffer, counterfeit, counterfeiter, deceiver, dissembler, double-dealer, foist, fraud, humbug, impostor, mountebank, phoney, pretender, trickster, twister), обман (bam, bamboozle, beguilement, bilk, bluff, bunko, chouse, circumvention, cozenage, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, foist, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gammon, gouge, guile, hanky panky, hoax, imposture, juggle, jugglery, lie, overreach, phoney, phony, pretence, pretense, ruse, sell, sham, swindle, trickery, victimization, wile), обдурювати (befool, bilk, chouse, cod, cog, counterfeit, deceive, doodle, dupe, flimflam, gull, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, jockey, juggle, prey, put upon, queer, sell short), збивати з пантелику (distract, maze, obfuscate, wander), пройдисвіт (adventurer, bounder, nib, rogue, twerp, vagabond), дурити (bamboozle, beat, fool, play off). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trò lừa bịp (dupery), trò lừa đảo, trò gian lận, tên cờ bạc bịp (cheater), ngón gian người lừa đảo, kẻ gian lận (bunco-steerer). (various references) | |
Welsh | castio (calculate, cast, trick), cafflo (entangle), twyllo (bamboozle, beguile, deceive, swindle), hocedwr (fraud), hocedu (deceive, defraud). (various references) | |
Yucatec | tuus (deceive, lie, tell a lie). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | circumducatur, circumducendi, circumducentibus, circumduci, circumduxerunt, circumduxissent, circumduxit, circumvenio, decipio, defraudat, defraudatus, defraudavi, defrauderis, deludo, depilatus, ex-, fallentes, fallere, fallit, fallitur, falsa, falsae, falsam, falsas, falsi, falsis, falso, falsos, falsum, falsus, fefellit, fraudamur, fraudare, fraudasti, fraudati, fraudatis, fraudatus, fraudavit, fraudem, fraudes, fraudo, phallet. (various references) |
| German | 100 BCE-Modern | Schwindler. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | barater, forbe. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cheat": cheated, cheater, cheaters, cheating, cheats. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cheat": escheat, outcheat, recheat. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cheat": escheatable, escheated, escheating, escheats, outcheated, outcheating, outcheats, recheats, tracheate, tracheated. (additional references) | |
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"Cheat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ceaft, ceat, ceit, chaat, chae, chaed, chaetae, chaot, chea, cheab, chead, cheak, cheal, cheam, chear, cheas, cheast, cheata, cheaty, cheeow, cheet, cheety, Chehab, cheist, chelate, chemata, Chenab, chenate, chet, cheta, Chetan, chett, chewa, chhet, Chiah, chiao, chiast, Chiat, Chiate, Chiot, chita, Chitac, Chiyah, choa, choad, choat, choot, Chota, chua, Chuvash, cmea, creatt, Cueta, kaet, keat, Mcfeat, pheat, Scheat, tchat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cheat" (pronounced khē"t) |
| 2 | -ē" t | backseat, beat, beet, cleat, compete, complete, conceit, concrete, deceit, defeat, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, downbeat, eat, effete, elite, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, greet, heat, incomplete, indiscreet, leet, Marguerite, meat, meet, mete, mistreat, neat, offbeat, peat, petite, pleat, receipt, repeat, replete, retreat, seat, secrete, sheet, Skeet, sleet, Street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, unseat, wheat. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tache, teach, theca. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-t" | |
-1 letter: ache, cate, chat, each, eath, etch, haet, hate, heat, tace, tach, thae. | |
-2 letters: ace, act, ate, cat, eat, eta, eth, hae, hat, het, tae, tea, the. | |
-3 letters: ae, ah, at, eh, et, ha, he, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-t" | |
+1 letter: cachet, chaeta, chalet, chaste, cheats, chetah, detach, hepcat, rachet, sachet, scathe, taches, thecae, thecal. | |
+2 letters: achiest, achiote, aitches, aphetic, attache, batched, batcher, batches, brachet, cachets, catcher, catches, catechu, cathead, cathect, cathode, chaetae, chaetal, chalets, chanted, chanter, chantey, chaplet, chapter, charted, charter, chasten, chaster, chateau, chatted, chattel, chatter, chayote, cheated, cheater, cheetah, chelate, chetahs, cholate, ecthyma, enchant, escheat, etchant, ethical, hatched, hatchel, hatcher, hatches, hatchet, hectare, hellcat, hematic, hepatic, hepcats, hotcake, latched, latches, latchet, machete, manchet, matched, matcher, matches, ootheca, patched, patcher, patches, rachets, ratches, ratchet, rechart, recheat, rematch, repatch, reteach, sachets, satchel, scathed, scathes, teacher, teaches, thacked, thecate, theriac, trachea, trachle, tranche, unteach, watched, watcher, watches, yachted, yachter. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Bibliography |
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