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Definition: Faker |
FakerNoun1. A person who makes deceitful pretenses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "faker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references) |
Note: Faker \Fak"er\, noun. [Often erroneously with fakir.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: FakerSynonyms: fake (n), fraud (n), imposter (n), impostor (n), pretender (n), pseud (n), pseudo (n), role player (n), sham (n), shammer (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deceiver | Liar; (lie; ); story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a triple etage, Scapin; bunko steerer, carpetbagger, capper, faker, fraud, four flusher, horse coper, ringer, spieler, straw bidder. |
Merchant | Retailer; chapman, hawker, huckster, higgler; pedlar, colporteur, cadger, Autolycus; sutler, vivandiere; costerman, costermonger; tallyman; camelot; faker; vintner. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Faker |
| Specialty definitions using "faker": DARWIN. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Man taker, born faker ("Hair Of The Dog"; performing artist: Nazareth) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Faker (1929) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Faker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Faker" is used about 11 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "faker": broad-faker, master-faker, picture-faker. | |
| 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 |
faker filter | 24 |
faker | 23 |
faker share | 22 |
faker ip | 8 |
faker ninja wwe | 8 |
web space faker | 4 |
card credit faker | 4 |
dc faker | 3 |
connect direct faker | 2 |
faker suck | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "faker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kusar (breaker, brigand, brigandage, footpad, harrier, highwayman, looter, passkey man, picaroon, picklock). (various references) | |
Arabic | مختلق (fabricated, fabricator, feigned, invented). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фалшификатор (counterfeiter, forger). (various references) | |
German | Fälscher (counterfeiter, fakers, falsifier, falsifiers, forger, forgers). (various references) | |
Greek | απατεών (circumventer, circumventor, cozener, crook, deceiver, fraud, hoodwinker, jockey, knave, rook, shammer, shark, sharp, shaver, slicker, swindler, tricker, trickster, victimizer, welcher, welsher). (various references) | |
Hebrew | זיפן (counterfeiter, forger, imitator). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hamisító (counterfeiter, fabricator, forger, imitator), szédelgő (fake, fraud, mountebank, skin). (various references) | |
Italian | impostore (humbug, impostor, juggler, phoney, sham). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 野師 (charlatan, quack, showman), 香具師 (charlatan, master perfume maker, quack, showman), 的屋 (racketeer, stall-keeper), 弥四 (charlatan, quack, showman). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | やし (charlatan, non-official or privately composed history, palm tree, quack, showman), てきや (racketeer, stall-keeper). (various references) | |
Manx | foalseyr (fake, forger). (various references) | |
Norwegian | forfalsker. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | akerfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | falsário (forger), vistoso (brave, clipping, drew, flaring, flash, flashy, gallant, garish, goodly, nolens volens, off-load, showy, spicy, theatrical, viewy). (various references) | |
Romanian | escroc (bilk, biter, blackguard, blackleg, carpet bagger, charlatan, cheat, crook, desperado, double-dealer, duffer, fraud, gambler, gamester, gouge, gyp, impostor, jockey, juggler, knave, mountebank, rogue, rook, scab, shark, sharp, sharper, snap, swindler). (various references) | |
Russian | жулик (bilk, bilker, cheat, con, gyp, phoney, phony, rapscallion, ratbag, rogue, sharper, slicker, swindler). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | simulant (dissembler, malingerer, pretender), prevarant (bilker, cheat, chouse, confidence trickster, deceiver, fake, wheeler dealer). (various references) | |
Spanish | imitador (imitator, impersonator, mimic). (various references) | |
Swedish | förfalskare (coiner, counterfeiter, falsifier, forger), bluffmakare (bluffer, fake, humbug, trickster). (various references) | |
Turkish | yalandan hasta (simulator), sahtekâr (counterfeiter, crook, crooked, dishonest, double-tongued, fabricator, fake, fakir, forger, fraud, fraudulent, impostor, make believe, phoney, phony, sham, shammer), numaracı (affected, affecting, fake, fakir, poser, poseur, shammer, simulator, tricksy), gösterişçi (ham, pretentious, raffish, show off, showy, swanky), dolandırıcı (adventurer, bilker, carpet bagger, cheat, cheater, chiseler, chiseller, confidence man, confidence trickster, crook, crooked, deceitful, double-dealer, fakir, fiddler, fraud, fraudulent, grifter, gyp, hustler, impostor, knave, lurcher, rogue, sham, shark, sharp, spieler, swindler, Twicer), şarlatan (charlatan, croaker, dabbler, empiric, fake, humbug, mountebank, phoney, phony, quack, sciolist, wag). (various references) | |
Turkmen | aldawзy (liar, rascal). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kẻ giả mạo. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "faker": fakeries, fakers, fakery. (additional references) | |
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"Faker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aker, eaker, faceo, facere, facex, facour, faer, fager, Fajko, faka, fakel, fakey, Fakhr, Fakhri, Fakhro, Fakhru, fakie, fakr, fa-kwei, Falkkirk, famer, Faner, faver, faveur, faxer, fayer, fazer, Fekter, feuer, ficer, Fika, fiker, fikey, Fikret, focker, foke, foker, fooker, Fosker, frakir, fucer, fuke, gaker. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "faker" (pronounced fā"ker) |
| 3 | -ā" k er | acre, Baker, breaker, Laker, maker, quaker, raker, Saker, shaker, taker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: freak. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-k-r" | |
-1 letter: fake, fare, fear, frae, kerf, rake. | |
-2 letters: are, arf, ark, ear, era, far, fer, kae, kaf, kea, kef, ref. | |
-3 letters: ae, ar, ef, er, fa, ka, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-k-r" | |
+1 letter: fakeer, fakers, fakery, flaker, freaks, freaky. | |
+2 letters: fakeers, flakers, flakier, flanker, forsake, franked, franker, freaked, rakeoff. | |
+3 letters: backfire, ecofreak, fakeries, fireback, flackery, flankers, forepeak, forerank, forsaken, forsaker, forsakes, frankers, frankest, freakier, freakily, freaking, freakish, freakout, prefrank, rakeoffs, wakerife, workfare. | |
+4 letters: afterdeck, backfired, backfires, breakfast, drawknife, dwarflike, ecofreaks, fairylike, falsework, filmmaker, firebacks, firebreak, firedrake, forepeaks, foreranks, foreshank, forespeak, forsakers, framework, frankable, frankness, freakiest, freakouts, friedcake, fruitcake, lakefront, leakproof, prefranks, tackifier, workfares. | |
+5 letters: afterdecks, aftershock, breakfasts, breakfront, cockchafer, cornflakes, falseworks, farmworker, fatherlike, filmmakers, firebreaks, firedrakes, flackeries, foreshanks, forespeaks, frameworks, freakiness, freakishly, friedcakes, fruitcakes, lakefronts, prefranked, superflack, tackifiers, trafficked, trafficker. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 6B 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- -.- . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01101011 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a k e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 006B 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4067777184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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