Cheat

Definition: Cheat

Cheat

Noun

1. 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.

Verb

1. 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)

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Cheat

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.

Crosswords: Cheat

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)

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!)

Trick or Cheat (1966)

The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)

Sweet Cheat (1949)

The Beautiful Cheat (1946)

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• CCNA 2.0 640-507 Routing and Switching Cheat Sheet (reference)

• Choosing to Cheat : Who Wins When Family and Work Collide? (reference)

• Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls (reference)

• Fake Liar Cheat (reference)

• How to Cheat at Golf (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Icd-9 Cheat Sheet (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Carmen / The Cheat (reference)

• Manslaughter / The Cheat (reference)

• Card Shark Secrets How To Catch A Cheat (reference)

• Love, Cheat & Steal (reference)

• The Cheat (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• I Should Cheat on You [CD5/Cassette Single] [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

• Lie, Cheat & Steal (reference)

• Ready to Cheat (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Xplorer64 Cheat Cartridge (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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.

Ending with "cheat": love-cheat.

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)

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)

Schwindler. (various references)

barater, forbe. (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)

Misspellings

"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 (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tache, teach, theca.

-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.

+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.