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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Untruth | Invention, fabrication, fiction; fable, nursery tale; romance; (imagination); absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement; thing devised by the enemy; canard; shave, sell, hum, traveler;s tale, Canterbury tale, fairy tale, fake; claptrap. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| 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 |
false story true | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FALSE STORY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Indonesian | dongengan (myth). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alsefay orystay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-o-r-s-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: forestays. | |
-2 letters: floaters, forestal, forestay, refloats, safroles. | |
-3 letters: artless, estrays, falsest, falters, fasters, fatless, fatsoes, flayers, floater, florets, folates, forests, fossate, fosters, lassoer, lasters, loafers, lofters, lysates, oarless, ostlers, oysters, rayless, refloat, safrole, safrols, salters, serosal, slaters, slayers, solates, stayers, sterols, storeys, strafes, stylers, systole, toyless. | |
-4 letters: afters, alerts, alters, artels, assert, assort, asters. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-o-r-s-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: forestaysail. | |
+3 letters: forestaysails. | |
| 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. | |
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