False

Definitions: False

False

Adjective

1. Not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery".

2. Arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation".

3. Erroneous and usually accidental; "a false start"; "a false alarm".

4. Deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses".

5. Inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes".

6. Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated aligator hide".

7. Designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom".

8. Inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key".

9. Adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty".

10. : (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend; "when lovers prove untrue".

Adverb

1. In a disloyal and faithless manner; "he behaved treacherously"; "his wife played him false".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "false" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

Literature

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

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: False

Error

Adjective: erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious, apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless; unsubstantial; heretical; (heterodox); unsound; illogical.

Improbity

Faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful, disloyal; untrustworthy; trustless, trothless; lost to shame, dead to honor; barratrous.

Reasoning,

Unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid; unwarranted, not following; inconsequent, inconsequential; inconsistent; absonous, absonant; unscientific; untenable, inconclusive, incorrect; fallacious, fallible; groundless, unproved; non sequitur.

Undueness

Illegitimate, bastard, spurious, supposititious, false; usurped.

Untruth

Adjective: untrue, false, phony, trumped up; void of foundation, without-foundation; fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths; unfounded, ben trovato, invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged; fictitious, factitious, supposititious, surreptitious; elusory, illusory; ironical; soi-disant; (misnamed).

Crosswords: False

Latin (deceit, deceiving, deceptive, false, falsehood, feigned, fictitious, fraud, lying, spurious, untruth, wrong).

Flaws. Do you ever get any false positives? (Minority Report; writing credit: Scott Frank)

False ears (Brazil; writing credit: Terry Gilliam; Charles McKeown)

Pushing them on with false hope? (Dinosaur; writing credit: Walon Green; Thom Enriquez)

And by true, I mean false. But isn't that really the greater truth? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

There is a strange sort of rebelliosness that is associated with smoking, and the thing is, it's such a false rebelliousness. (Scene Smoking: Cigarettes, Cinema & the Myth of Cool; writing credit: Bill Cassinelli; Michael Hoffman Jr.)

No I would not give you false hope ("Mother and Child Reunion"; performing artist: Paul Simon)

All my false bravado seemed to disappear ("When I Say"; performing artist: Air Supply)

Modesty died when false modesty was born. (references; author: Mark Twain)

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. (references; author: unknown)

I have gotten to the age where I need my false teeth and hearing aid before I can ask where I left my glasses. (references; author: unknown)

True friends are like diamonds: precious and rare. False friends are like autumn leaves: scattered everywhere. (references; author: unknown)

False Frank fled Flo Friday. (references; author: unknown)

False Hare (1964)

Take One False Step (1949)

False Paradise (1948)

The False Madonna (1931)

False Roomers (1931)

False Knight On The Road (performing artist: Steeleye Span - Prior/Hart)

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

Books

• The False Fat Diet: The Revolutionary 21-Day Program for Losing the Weight You Think Is Fat [BARGAIN PRICE] (reference)

• The masks of hate; the problem of false solutions in the culture of an acquisitive society (reference)

• One False Move (reference)

• A Question of Innocence: A True Story of False Accusation (reference)

• No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Civil False Claims And Qui Tam Actions (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• One False Move (reference)

• Rurouni Kenshin - False Prophet, Vol. 4 (reference)

• False Alarms (reference)

• Ruroni Kenshin - False Prophet (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• False Accusations (reference)

• False Cathedrals (reference)

• False Start (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Ultima VI: The False Prophet (reference)

• Litemount False Ceiling Plate (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.

Farshot of False dandelion, Agoseris glauca.Credit: John Craig.

Farshot of False dandelion, Agoseris glauca.Credit: John Craig.

Perideridia howellii, or commonly known as Howell's False Caraway.Credit: Unknown.

Medium shot of false agoseris wildflower, whole plant.Credit: John Craig.

Closeup shot of False Agoser wildflower in fruit.Credit: John Craig.

Medium shot of Howell's false caraway (Perideridia howellii).Credit: Unknown.

False Solomon's Seal (Smilacina racemosa) found at West Fork Evans Creek Drain gage (Rock Creek).Credit: Terry Tuttle.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Germany undertakes to prohibit and repress by seizure and by other appropriate remedies the importation, exportation, manufacture, distribution, sale or offering for sale in its territory of all goods bearing upon themselves or their usual get-up or wrappings any marks, names, devices, or description whatsoever which are calculated to convey directly or indirectly a false indication of the origin, type, nature, or special characteristics of such goods. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Papa, if you speak in that melancholy way, you will be giving Isabella a false idea of us all.

And he himself, in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.

An unlucky effort, inexpert help, a false push, might crush him.

The prefect was at the door with some boys and Simon Moonan was knotting his false sleeves.

I fear me both are false.

So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the Houyhnhnms.

Otherwise we shall be found sailing under false colors, and be inevitably cashiered at last by our own opinion, as well as that of mankind.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The false positive rate is about 5 to 10 percent. (references)

In most allergic reactions, however, the immune system is responding to a false alarm. (references)

For instance, pneumograms may be used to distinguish false from true apnea monitor alarms. (references)

Business

Washing instructions, size of garment and country of origin should be displayed, but must not be false or misleading information. (references)

End-users' dissatisfaction is also partly based on false expectations raised by overly optimistic forecasts and a direct comparison of cellular phones' speed, handling and possibilities with fixed-line based internet access. (references)

Children

Cambodia

In some of these cases, the perpetrators encouraged women to give up their children under false pretenses, for example, by promising to care for the children temporarily but then refusing to return them. (references)

Civil Liberties

Djibouti

The law prohibits the dissemination of false information and regulates the publication of newspapers. (references)

Djibouti

On March 31, the court found DAF not guilty of defamation, but guilty of disseminating false information. (references)

Economic History

Austria

The forum can initiate proceedings against advertisers who make false claims. (references)

Vietnam

A wide variety of consumer products bearing false or misleading labels are readily available in the markets. (references)

Russia

In fact, some U.S. companies have met trouble as a result of false invoicing and other irregularities committed by their intermediaries. (references)

Human Rights

Syria

Detainees have no legal redress for false arrest. (references)

Turkey

The highest penalties are for doctors who supply false reports for money. (references)

Algeria

On the same day, terrorists at a false roadblock shot and killed a soldier. (references)

Minorities

France

In April the Church of Scientology was taken to court for fraud and false advertising in a lawsuit brought by three former members; the case remained pending at year's end. (references)

Japan

The League also replaced the term Burakumin (hamlet people) with Buraku Jumin (hamlet residents), to try to debunk the false concept that the Burakumin are a different race from other Japanese. (references)

Estonia

By law the following classes of persons are ineligible for naturalization: Those filing on the basis of false data or documents; those not abiding by the constitutional system or not fulfilling the laws; those who have acted against the State and its security; those convicted of felonies; those who work or have worked in the intelligence or security services of a foreign state; or those who served as career soldiers in the armed forces of a foreign state, including those discharged into the reserves or retired. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

In May authorities prevented a journalist from the Al Sahafa daily newspaper from entering the hall for coverage of National Assembly discussions on the basis that the paper had published false reports against the Assembly. (references)

GREECE

Agricultural Products: Greek testing methods for Karnal bunt disease in U.S. wheat have served as a de facto ban on imports and transshipment of wheat for the last three years due to a high incidence of false positive results. (references)

PORTUGAL

Trademark Protection: Portugal is a member of the International Union for the Protection of Industrial Property (WIPO) and a party to the Madrid Agreement on International Registration of Trademarks and Prevention of the Use of False Origins. (references)

Political Rights

Belarus

However, most of the irregularities were not immediately apparent, creating the false image of an orderly polling station. (references)

Uganda

Several candidates were disqualified because of false papers, and at least one M.P. resigned his position because it was discovered that he had forged education papers. (references)

Nigeria

All three parties engaged in the local purchase of false ballots and fraudulent tally sheets so that there were vast discrepancies between what observers saw and inflated tallies in some areas. (references)

Trade

Portugal

False indication of origin is prohibited. (references)

Switzerland

False descriptions are strictly prohibited. (references)

New Zealand

New Zealand prohibits the importation of all goods bearing false or deceiving trademarks. (references)

Travel

Czech Rep

This can create a false impression that Czechs are cold or unfriendly. (references)

Argentina

Because of many cases of robberies in false taxis, as noted above, visitors should, whenever possible, call radio taxis, or arrange a remis, instead of flagging passing taxis on the street. (references)

Worker Rights

Indonesia

Many of the girls and women were hired under false pretenses. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

False gods

Expressions using "false": a false step ♦ bear false witness ♦ bear false witness against ♦ bearing false witness ♦ blue false indigo ♦ California false morel ♦ demonstrably false ♦ false acacia ♦ false accusation ♦ false accusattion ♦ false advertising ♦ false alarm ♦ false alarm rate ♦ false alumroot ♦ False arch ♦ false asphodel ♦ False attic ♦ false azalea ♦ false baby's breath ♦ false beachdrops ♦ False bearing ♦ false bedding ♦ false belief ♦ false belly ♦ false bittersweet ♦ false body ♦ false bottom ♦ false bracken ♦ false buckthorn ♦ false bugbane ♦ False cadence ♦ false calyx ♦ false chamomile ♦ false charge ♦ false claim ♦ false coin ♦ false color film ♦ false coloring ♦ False conception ♦ false conviction ♦ False croup ♦ false deathcap ♦ false declaration ♦ false dip ♦ false dogwood ♦ False door ♦ false dragon head ♦ false dragonhead ♦ false drop ♦ false excuses ♦ false expectation ♦ false face ♦ False fire ♦ false foxglove ♦ false friend ♦ false fruit ♦ false galena ♦ false garlic ♦ false gavial ♦ false glottis ♦ false goatsbeard ♦ false god ♦ false gromwell ♦ false hair ♦ false head ♦ false heart ♦ false heartwood ♦ false heather ♦ false hellebore ♦ false hem ♦ false ils glide path ♦ False imprisonment ♦ false indigo ♦ false information ♦ False jalap ♦ False keel ♦ False key ♦ false labor ♦ False leg ♦ false leopardbane ♦ false lily of the valley ♦ false locust ♦ False loosestrife ♦ false lupine ♦ false mallow ♦ False membrane ♦ false mildew ♦ false mistletoe ♦ False miterwort ♦ false mitrewort ♦ false money ♦ false morel ♦ False myrrh ♦ false name ♦ False Negative Reactions ♦ False nettle ♦ false note ♦ false oat ♦ false oath ♦ false origin ♦ false pains. Additional references.

Beginning with "false": false-bottomed, false-coiner, false-colour, false-consciousness, false-dawn, False-faced, false-fossil, false-front, False-heart, False-hearted, False-heartedness, false-napoleonic, false-negative, false-negatives, false-positive, false-positives, false-starts, false-stone.

Ending with "false": true-false.

Containing "false": racism-as-false-consciousness.

Afrikaan

verkeerd (erroneous, mistaken, untrue, wrong), vals. (various references)

Albanian

fals (affected, bogus, dummy, off-key, out of whole cloth, painted, plastic, snide, spurious, untrue), jobesnik (disaffected), i rremë (affected, delusive, delusory, fallible, fictitious, fictive, hollow, illusive, lying, mendacious, meretricious, mock, out of whole cloth, pasteboard, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, plastic, pseudo, simulated, spoof, spurious, supposititious, untruthful), i pavërtetë (assumed), i pasaktë (erroneous, fallible, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, inexplicit, lax, untrue, vague), i gabuar (Amiss, erroneous, fallacious, faulty, ill-judged, improper, incorrect, mistaken, peccant, perverse, untrue, wet, wrong, wrongful), i gënjeshtërt (illusive, illusory, lying, mock, truthless, untrue), artificial (artful, artificial, camp, cultured, factitious, made, meretricious, pinchbeck, simulated, synthetic, synthetical, tin, unnatural). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مخادع (artful, bluff, bluffer, crafty, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, devious, dishonest, disingenuous, double, double dealing, double-tongued, face, fraudulent, hustler, illusive, illusory, indirect, insincere, misguiding, misleading, sly, trickish, tricky, underhand, wily), ‏إضافي (additional, ancillary, auxiliary, bonus, extra, farther, further, more, overtime, spare, special, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary), ‏خائن (betrayer, deceiver, disloyal, faithless, perfidious, renegade, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, unfaithful, unreliable, untrue), ‏خادع (bluffy, crafty, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dishonest, double dealing, fallacious, fool, illusive, illusory, insincere, misleading, rip off, trickish, tricky, wily), ‏خاطئ (amiss, erring, erroneous, faulty, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, mistaken, wrong), ‏خان (betray, double cross, hotel, inn, khan, play false, rat, renegade, sell out, split, squeal, two time), ‏على نحو غادر (falsely), ‏زائف (adulterate, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, dummy, fake, fictitious, fictive, floating, hypocritical, imitation, imitative, mock, postiche, pretended, pseudo, queer, sham, shoddy, simulate, spurious, unreal), ‏شكلي (distinct, formal, logomachy, modal, nominal, pernickety), ‏ناشز (discordant, dissonant, prominent, protruding), ‏فاسد (abusive, bad, corrupt, decadent, decayed, decomposed, degenerated, depraved, disintegrated, evil, foul, immoral, incorrect, infected, invalid, null, perverse, pervertible, putrid, rogue, rotten, spoiled, unsound, vain, vicious, void, wicked, wrong), ‏مضلل (deceitful, deceptive, illusive, misguiding, misleading, perverting), ‏مزور (counterfeit, counterfeiter, forged, phoney, pirate, rigged), ‏مستعار (fake, pseudo), ‏متكلف (affected, artificial, assumed, constrained, factitious, faked, feigned, forced, mannered, overacted, put on, sham, stagy, stilted, stogie, strained, theatrical, unnatural), ‏كاذب (bogus, deceptive, delusive, dummy, fake, fictitious, flash, lying, phony, pseudo, sham, simulate, snide, spurious, unreal, untrue, untruthful), ‏كذبة (deceit, falsehood, flam, lie, mendacity, story, tale), ‏كذاب (bluffer, deceitful, fibber, lying, mendacious, untruthful), ‏غادر (blow, depart, disloyal, feline, get carried away, go, hop, insidious, jump, leave, pop off, quit, ratty, retire, scram, skip, snaky, sneak, snide, start, traitorous, treacherous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

фалшив (bastard, bogus, brummagem, counterfeit, dummy, factitious, fake, fictitious, hollow, imitative, insincere, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, queer, sharp, snide, spurious, supposititious, tinsel), нечестен (cammed, crooked, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, dodgy, faithless, ignominious, low down, screwy, twisty, unfair, wildcat), неверен (disloyal, faithless, false-hearted, inconstant, incorrect, mendacious, mock, perfidious, treacherous, unfaithful, untrue, wrongful), незаконен (illegal, illegitimate, illicit, irregular, lawless, outlaw, secret, supposititious, undue, unlawful, wrongful), неправилен (abnormal, anomalous, awry, defective, erroneous, faulty, improper, incorrect, injudicious, irregular, lame, mis-, mistaken, unequal, unfair, untrue, vicious, wrongful), неискрен (disingenuous, feigned, hollow, hollow-hearted, insincere, lip, lip-deep, mealy mouthed, oblique, phoney, pretended, synthetic, tortuous), лъжлив (bogus, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, double, double-tongued, elusory, lying, mendacious, misleading, mock, perjurious, phantasmagoric, pretended, quack, shifty, spoof, tinsel, truthless, untrue, untruthful, vain), лицемерен (canting, double faced, hypocritical, jesuitic, jesuitical, pharisaic, simon-pure, smooth, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, smooth-faced), погрешен (awry, erroneous, faulty, illegitimate, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, mis-, misguided, mistaken, off beat, perverse, unsound, untrue, vicious, wonky, wrong, wrongful), подставен (dummy), изкуствен (affected, artificial, factitious, imitation, man-made, mimic, pinchbeck, theatrical, unnatural, unreal). (various references)

Chinese 

假 (artificial, fake, if, suppose, to borrow, vacation). (various references)

Czech

falešný (bad, bogus, brummagem, catty, double faced, dud, fake, false-hearted, forged, made up, mock, off-key, out of tune, phoney, phony, pseudo, put up, sham, spurious, two faced, wrong), zrádný (deceitful, guileful, perfidious, shifty, telltale, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous), zbyteèný (futile, good for nothing, gratuitous, needless, senseless, unnecessary, useless, wasted, wasteful), umìlý (artificial, meretricious, synthetic), planý (airy fairy, barren, empty, fruitless, idle, sterile, wild), nevìrný (faithless, unfaithful, untrustworthy), nesprávný (faulty, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, out, untrue, wrong), nepravdivý (mendacious, untrue, untruthful), neoprávnìný (illicit, incompetent, unauthorized, unlawful, unqualified, wrongful), klamný (deceptive, delusory, fallacious, illusive, illusory, misleading, untrue), křivý (crooked, uneven, wry), chybný (erroneous, faulty, inaccurate, incorrect, lapsed, vicious, wrong). (various references)

Danish

falsk. (various references)

Dutch

loos (empty, void), dubbelhartig (treacherous). (various references)

Esperanto

nevera (untrue), malvera (untrue). (various references)

Farsi 

مصنوعی (Dummy, Postiche, Sophisticated), نادرست (Amiss, Dishonest, Erroneous, Foul, Imprecise, Impure, Inaccurate, Incorrect, Inexact, Jackleg, Sinister, Spurious, Unfair, Unsound, Untrue, Vicious), کذب (Lie, Mendacity, Untruth(Ful)), قلابی (Adulterate, Bogus, Pasteboard, Quack, Sham), غلط (Amiss, Awry, Erroneous, Error, Foul, Inaccuracy, Inaccurate, Incorrect, Phony, Unsound), ساختگی (Apocryphal, Bogus, Imitation, Made, Phony, Quack, Sham, Whopper), دروغگو (Liar), دروغ (Bung, Fable, Fiction, Lie, Untrue), بدل (Apposition, Brassy, Spurious, Substitute). (various references)

Finnish

vilpillinen (deceitful, dishonest, fraudulent), valheellinen (not true, untrue), väärä (bent, crooked, faulty, incorrect, mis, twisted, unfair, untrue, wrong, wrongful), uskoton (disloyal, unfaithful, untrue), petollinen (deceitful, deceptive, delusive, fraudulent, treacherous), kavala (deceitful, insidious, treacherous, underhand), epärehellinen (deceitful, dishonest). (various references)

French

feint (fake), faux (fake, falx), factice, supplémentaire, perfide, inexact, déloyal (faithless). (various references)

Frisian

falsk. (various references)

German

falsch (bogus, cattish, cattishly, counterfeit, deceitful, erroneous, fake, falsely, fictitious, forged, imitation, improper, incorrect, incorrectly, insincere, loaded, mistaken, nonfactual, off-key, phoney, phony, pseudo, put on, sham, spurious, unsounded, untrue, wrong, wrongly), unwahr (incorrect, untrue, untruely, untruthful), unrichtig (inaccurate, inaccurately, incorrect, incorrectly, untrue), unaufrichtig (disingenuous, falsely, hollow, insincere, insincerely, untruthful). (various references)

Greek 

καλπικόσ (pseudo), πλαστόσ (counterfeit, falsified, fictitious, forged, mock, sham, shoddy, spurious, supposititious), εσφαλμένοσ (incorrect, misguided, mistaken, wrong), ψεύτικοσ (bogus, counterfeit, delusive, dummy, phoney), ψευδήσ (bogus, mendacious, mock, phony, pseudo, sham). (various references)

Hebrew 

מזויף (bastard, bogus, counterfeit, dummy, fake, forged, made up, meretricious, mock, postiche, snide, specious, spurious), מ�"ומ�" (dummy, feigned, imaginary, mock), מצוץ מן �"אצבע (hot air, unfounded), מסולף (distorted, forged, garbled, perverted), לא � אמן (disloyal, untrue), שקר (falsehood, falsity, lie, lying, prevarication, sham, tale, untruth), כוזב (fictitious, illusory, mimetic, untrue), ב�"וי (fabricated, fictitious, fictive, invented, made up), ב�"אי (fabricated, fantasy, fiction, lying). (various references)

Hungarian

téves (erroneous, ill founded, improper, incorrect, misdirection, misinformation, mistaken, unsound). (various references)

Icelandic

ósannur (untrue). (various references)

Indonesian

salah (demerit, incorrect, off, wrong, wrongful), gombal (empty), cangkokan (a graft, a transplant), cangkok (cutting, graft, shoot, transplant), batil (copper bowl, evil, invalid, plate, tray). (various references)

Italian

falso (apocryphal, counterfeit, deceitful, disingenuous, dud, dummy, erroneous, faithless, fake, fallacious, falsehood, forgery, insincere, intrue, lying, mock, phoney, phony, pretended, pseudo, sham, spoof, tin, wrong). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

辟 (crime, law, punish, ruler), 空空しい (hypocritical), 空々しい (hypocritical), 疑似 (mock, pseudo, quasi, sham, suspected), �"�似 (mock, pseudo, quasi, sham, suspected), 偽 (deception, falsehood, imitation, lie), 似非 (mock, pretended, pseudo, quasi, sham, spurious, would-be), 似而非 (pseudo-), 仮性 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎじ (character of questionable form, mock, proceedings, pseudo, quasi, questionable word, sham, suspected), ぎ (affair, be suspicious of, case, ceremony, connection, deception, deed, distrust, doubt, falsehood, favor, friendly relations, friendship, goodwill, honour, imitation, intimacy, justice, kindness, lie, matter, morality, relation, righteousness, rule, skill), そらぞらしい (hypocritical), にせ (bogus, deception, falsehood, imitation, lie, sham), かせい (assistance, backing, caustic, change, clearing of the river water, despotism, falsetto, force of flames, great poet, growth, honour of the family, household economy, Mars, metamorphosis, reinforcements, section system, transformation, tyranny), へき (bias, break, burst, crime, inferiority complex, law, pierce, prejudice, punish, ruler, split, tear), えせ (mock, pretended, pseudo, pseudo-, quasi, sham, spurious, would-be). (various references)

Korean 

틀린. (various references)

Malay

palsu. (various references)

Manx

foalsey (affected, bogus, counterfeit, dud, dummy, ersatz, fallacious, feigned, forged, hollow, hollow of victory, hypocritical, perfidious, pinchbeck, sham, spurious, substitute, suppositious, tinsel, treacherous, two-faced, wrong, wrong as note), breagagh (bogus, delusive, extravagant, fictitious, illusive, imitation, lying, pinchbeck, spurious). (various references)

Norwegian

usann (untrue). (various references)

Papiamen

falsu, falso. (various references)

Pig Latin

alsefay.(various references)

Portuguese

falso (apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, canting, counterfeit, deceitful, double decker, double faced, double-tongued, dummy, error, faked, flash, hollow-hearted, imitation, insincere, lying, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchers, pretended, professed, self-styled, shifty, shoddy, simulated, sklent, slippery, slippy, snaky, snide, so called, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, truthless, two faced, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong). (various references)

Romanian

fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, cant, colourable, counterfeit, deceitful, double dealing, dud, dummy, erroneous, erroneously, error, factitious, fake, falsehood, feigned, flash, forged, forgery, fraud, glossy, hollow, hollow-hearted, imitation, imposture, insincere, lying, mendacious, mistaken, mock, painted, phony, plugged, reprobate, sham, spurious, sugary, tinsel, treacherous, trumpery, truthless, two faced, unnatural, unnaturally, untrue, wrong, wrongfully), fãţarnic (ambidexter, dissembler, dissembling, double, double-tongued, hypocrite, hypocritical, smooth-faced, treacherous), prefãcut (affected, assumed, cattish, falsified, forged, guileful, histrionic, hollow-hearted, hypocritical, insidious, mock, panting, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pretender, seeming, sham, squeamish, treacherous), perfid (false-hearted, guileful, perfidious, serpentine, shifty, snaky, treacherous), necredincios (disloyal, faithless, godless, heathen, infidel, irreligious, non believer, unbelieving, unfaithful), neadevãrat (incorrect, truthless, untrue), ipocrit (cant, canter, canting, dissembler, double-dealer, double-dealing-faced, fairfaced, feigner, histrionic, hollow, hypocrite, hypocritical, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pietist, squeamish, Tartuffe), infidel (faithless, unfaithful, untrustworthy), incorect (bad, deceitful, dishonest, foul, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, obliquitous, wrong, wrongful), greşit (abroad, Amiss, astray, awry, bad, badly, erroneous, erroneously, fallacious, faultily, faulty, incorrect, misled, mistaken, out of square, perverse, spurious, unfair, unjust, unlawful, vicious, wrong, wrongheaded), calp (bad), artificial (artificial, artificially, factitious, far fetched, fine-drawn, man-made, practised), închipuit (conceited, fancied, fictitious, imaginary, notional, overweening, unreal, visional). (various references)

Russian 

фальшивый (faked, feigned, off-key, phoney, pinchbeck, pseudo, snide, supposititious), ошибочный (amiss, erroneous, fallacious, fallible, faulty, inaccurate, misguided, mistaken, off-beam, unsound, wrongful), ложный (erroneous, fallacious, lying, mendacious, phoney, phony, spurious, truthless, untrue, untruthful), лживый (deceitful, double-tongued, mendacious, sklent, two-faced, two-tongued, untruthful), подставной, дутый (exaggerated, inflated). (various references)

Scottish

fallsa, guailisg, eithich. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

veštački (artificial, bogus, californium, factitious, man-made, unnatural), varljiv (fallacious, illusive, loaded, meretricious, misleading, specious, treacherous, tricky), lažan (apocryphal, assumed, counterfeit, dummy, factitious, fake, faked, feigned, lying, mock, phoney, phony, pseudo, reprobate, sham, spurious, supposititious, untruthful). (various references)

Spanish

falso (ambidexter, apostate, bad, bastard, blank, blind, bogus, brummagem, deceptive, dishonest, disingenuous, double-minded, dud, dummy, fake, hollow, incorrect, lost, lying, mendacious, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pseudo, quack, sham, shifty, spurious, treacherous, two faced, two-tongued, unsounded, untrue, wrong). (various references)

Sranan

farsi. (various references)

Swedish

osann (untrue, untruthful), falsk (bad, bogus, devious, disingenuous, double faced, dud, dummy, fake, flash, forged, fulsome, hollow, imitation, insincere, janus-faced, meretricious, mistaken, mock, off-key, phoney, pinchbeck, postiche, pseudo, sham, supposititious, two faced, unsound, untrue, wrong). (various references)

Tagalog

hindî totoó, dí-tapát. (various references)

Thai

เท็จ, ปลอม (fake, imitative, spurious), ซึ่งไม่ซื่อสัตย์ (sleazy). (various references)

Turkish

falsolu, sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, Duff, dummy, factitious, fake, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hollow, imitated, make believe, mannered, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pious, pretended, pseudo-, put on, quack, queer, rose water, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, spurious, studied, supposititious, telltale, token, unreal, untrue, untruthful), düzmece (phoney, phony), göstermelik (claptrap, for effect, for show, nominal, ostensible, pious, rose water, sample, specimen), hain (betrayer, cattish, catty, deceitful, dingo, disloyal, faithless, false-hearted, foul, insidious, Judas, malicious, nefarious, perfidious, rat, Ratter, renegade, scoundrel, scoundrelly, serpent, snaky, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, ungrateful, villain, viperish, viperous, wicked), haksız (gratuitous, ill gotten, inequitable, iniquitous, insupportable, invidious, raw, tortious, uncalled for, undeserved, unearned, unequal, unfair, unjust, unjustified, unmerited, unrighteous, unwarranted, wrong, wrongful), hatalı (Amiss, delinquent, errant, erring, erroneous, faulty, illegitimate, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, mistaken, out, solecistic, unsound, wet, wrong), hileli (dishonest, fraudulent, sharp, tortuous, trick, trickish, tricksy, tricky, twisty, unfair), iki yüzlü (ambidexter, ambidextrous, bilateral, disingenuous, dissembler, double dealing, double faced, double-dealer, double-minded, double-tongued, hypocrite, hypocritical, insincere, left handed, pharisaic, pharisaical, shammer, slimy, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, smoothie, two sided), asilsiz (untrue), numaradan (pretended), yapmacık (affected, artificial, campy, chichi, constrained, counterfeit, factitious, feigned, genteel, plummy, pretended, put on, rose water, set, shifty, sophisticated, studied, studious, theatrical, unnatural), suni (artificial, imitation, spurious, synthetical), taklit (affectation, bastard, bogus, counterfeit, echo, fake, gold brick, hit off, imitated, imitation, imitative, impression, mimesis, mimic, mimicry, mock, mockery, pinchbeck, repetition, reproduction, sham, simulacrum, simulated, simulation, snide, take off), takma (artificial, assumed, attachable, by-, bye-, postiche, pseudo-), uydurma (adjustment, apocryphal, arranging, cardboard box, coinage, colorable, concoction, fabled, fabrication, fabulous, fake, falsification, fib, fiction, fictitious, fictive, figment, fitting, flam, gold brick, improvisation, improvised, invention, made up, making up, mendacious, out of whole cloth, quack, tosh, trumped-up, tuning, untrue, untruth, untruthful), yalancıktan, yalandan (colorable, faked-up, under false pretences, under false pretenses), yalandan yapılan, yanlış (Amiss, corrigendum, errant, erroneous, error, fallacy, fault, improper, inaccuracy, inaccurate, inadvisable, incorrect, inexact, lapse, mis-, miscue, mistake, mistaken, untrue, wrong, wrongly, wry), yanlış olarak, kalp (base, bogus, counterfeit, forged, heart, mock, phoney, phony, queer, spurious). (various references)

Turkmen 

ters (cool, incorrect, uneven), яasama (artificial, imitation), яalandan, яalan, emeli (artificial). (various references)

Ukranian 

хибний (bad, faulty, phoney), фальшивий (bad, base, bastard, bogus, counterfeit, double-minded, faked, falsified, feigned, flash, off-key, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, plugged, pseudo, queer, sheeny, wrong), нещирий (bad, disingenuous, insincere, lip, tongue in cheek, underhand). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sai (inaccurate, unjust, untrue, wrong, wrongly), nhầm không thật, lừa dối (deceptive, fallacious, gold brick), lừa, giả dối trá, dối. (various references)

Welsh

ffug (affectation, bogus, fiction, fictitious, sham), ffals (deceitful), twyllodrus (deceitful), gosod (affix, allot, appoint, artificial, assign, attach, let, place, put, set), gau (base, bogus), celwyddog (lying, mendacious), anwireddus (lying, untruthful), anwir (lying, untrue, wicked), annilys (doubtful, spurious, unauthentic), anghywir (inaccurate, incorrect, wrong). (various references)

pseudes. (various references)

falsus. (various references)

leas. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "false": falsehood, falsehoods, falsely, falseness, falsenesses, falser, falsest, falsetto, falsettos, falsework, falseworks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"False" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afle, faise, falasel, falasie, falcs, falde, falden, Fale, Fales, falle, fals, falsa, falsas, falsed, falsey, falsy, falta, Falusi, falz, famlee, faqs, fase, fasi, fasu, fause, Fauske, Felsen, Filsak, fisle, flasa, flase, Flessa, foase, folse. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: alefs, fleas, leafs.

-1 letter: alef, ales, feal, flea, lase, leaf, leas, safe, sale, seal, self.

-2 letters: ale, als, efs, elf, els, fas, las, lea, sae, sal, sea, sel.

-3 letters: ae, al, as, ef, el, es, fa, la.

+1 letter: fables, falces, falser, falsie, farles, fellas, festal, flakes, flames, flanes, flares, flaxes, fleams, safely.

+2 letters: baffles, befalls, beflags, befleas, defleas, earfuls, easeful, fablers, failles, fallers, falsely, falsest, falsies, falters, fardels, farfels, fatless, favelas, fecials, fellahs, felspar, females, ferulas, fetials, finales, flakers, flambes, flamens, flamers, flanges, flashed, flasher, flashes, flasket, flayers, folates, loafers, raffles, refalls, refusal, safrole, seafowl, snaffle, sulfate, waffles.

+3 letters: affluxes, alfresco, bafflers, barflies, beefalos, cagefuls, dayflies, dealfish, defaults, deflates, dewfalls, earflaps, enflames, faceless, fadeless, failures, falsetto, fameless, families, fangless, farnesol, fascicle, favellas, fealties, fearless, feasible, feasibly, feastful, federals, feldspar, fellates, felspars, feluccas, fenagles, fenlands, festally, festival, fetiales, fetialis, filarees, filiates, finagles, finalise, fishable, fishmeal, fistulae, flaggers, flagless, flakiest, flamiest, flamines, flaneurs, flangers, flankens, flankers, flannels, flapless, flappers, flareups, flashers, flashier, flaskets, flatbeds, flatlets, flatness, flattens, flatters, flattest, flatuses, flatwise, flavines, flavones, flawiest, flawless, flaxiest, flaxseed, fleabags, fleapits, floatels, floaters, flotages, flowages, foamless, focalise, foliages, foliates, foresail, forestal, foveolas, frailest, frazzles, funerals, fuselage, gadflies, halfness, hasteful, icefalls, inflames, inflates, leadoffs, leafages, leafiest, leafless, leaflets, lifeways, mayflies, palfreys, parflesh, peafowls, rafflers, reflates, refloats, refusals, refutals, safroles, salified, salifies, sawflies, sclaffed, sclaffer, seafloor, seafowls, selfheal, selfsame, selfward, shameful, shinleaf, snaffled, snaffles, spadeful, stageful, sufflate, sulfated, sulfates, surfable, talkfest, tasteful, unsafely, wafflers, wamefuls, wasteful, welfares.

+4 letters: aerofoils, affluents, airfields, aloofness, amplifies, angelfish, awfullest, awfulness, balefires, basketful, beefaloes, bisulfate, boldfaces, buffaloes, calcifies, califates, canfields, clarifies, coalifies, conflates, damselfly, deadfalls, deadlifts, deferrals, defilades, deflaters, deflators, defrayals, dreadfuls, easefully, enfilades, evenfalls, facelifts, facsimile, faculties, fairleads, faithless, falconers, falconets, falderals, falderols, fallacies, falsehood, falseness, falsettos, falsework, falsified, falsifier, falsifies, falsities, falterers, farewells, farfalles, farnesols, fascicled, fascicles, fascicule, faultiest, faultless, fauteuils, fayalites, featliest, feldspars, fellatios, fellators, fenestral, festivals, feudalism, feudalist, filagrees, filaments, filatures, filenames, filtrates, finaglers, finalised, finalises, finalizes, fireballs, fireclays, firehalls, firewalls, fishmeals, fishplate, flabbiest, flaggiest, flagpoles, flagstone, flakiness, flambeaus, flamencos, flameouts, flaneries, flappiest, flashcube, flashiest, flashover, flashtube, flatheads, flatlines, flatmates, flatwares, flaunters, flavorers, flaxseeds, fleabanes, fleabites, fleaworts, flexagons, floatages, floatiest, floorages, flushable, fluxgates, flyleaves, flypapers, focalised, focalises, focalizes, focusable, folktales, fontanels, forelands, foreplays, foresails, forestall, forestial, formalise, frailness, frailties, frauleins, freeloads, fullfaces, fumaroles, fuselages, fusillade, gallflies, gatefolds, halfbeaks, halflives, halftimes, halftones, hayfields, inflamers, inflaters, kalifates, ladlefuls, leafstalk, leafworms, leapfrogs, leftwards, lifeboats, lifesaver, liftgates, masterful, outfables, palefaces, pantofles, pedalfers, platefuls, platesful, qualifies, rafflesia, referrals, sablefish, safelight, safflower, salsifies, sandflies, sclaffers, seafloors, selfheals, semifinal, shadflies, sheaflike, shiftable, shinleafs, snowflake, spadefuls, splayfeet, stagefuls, sufflated, sufflates, sulfatase, sulfonate, tablefuls, tablesful, taffarels, tafferels, talkfests, ultrasafe, welfarism, welfarist, wolfsbane.

+5 letters: affectless, affiliates, afflatuses, affluences, afterclaps, afterglows, afterlives, alderflies, alkalifies, amplifiers, anglerfish, artfulness, backfields, bafflegabs, barrelfuls, barrelsful, basketfuls, basketsful, bisulfates, blackfaces, blackflies, calcifuges, candlefish, catchflies, clarifiers, classified, classifier, classifies, coalfields, coalfishes, conferrals, cornflakes, damselfish, dayflowers, dealfishes, declassify, defalcates, defaulters, defeasible, deflations, defoliants, defoliates, delftwares, drawerfuls, endosulfan, exfoliates, facecloths, faceplates, facileness, facilities, facsimiles, falconries, fallfishes, fallowness, falsehoods, falseworks, falsifiers, farandoles, fascicules, fastballer, fatalities, fatherless, fathomless, faultiness, fearlessly, fearsomely, federalese, federalism, federalist, fellations, femaleness, feudalisms, feudalists, feudalizes, fiberglass, fibreglass, fieldfares, filariases, filmmakers, finalities, fireplaces, fishplates, fishtailed, flabbiness, flackeries, flagellins, flagellums, flageolets, flagrances, flagstaves, flagstones, flamingoes, flammables, flashcubes, flashiness, flashovers, flashtubes, flatfishes, flatliners, flatnesses, flatteners, flatterers, flatteries, flatwashes, flauntiest, flavanones, flavorless, flavorsome, flawlessly, floodgates, flowerages, fluctuates, flyswatter, foliaceous, forecastle, foreladies, forestalls, forestland, formalised, formalises, formalizes, formalness, formulates, fortalices, freakishly, freelances, fulgurates, fulminates, fusillades, gardenfuls, gerfalcons, halfnesses, infeasible, influenzas, insufflate, ladyfishes, lakefronts, lapidifies, laticifers, lawfulness, leafstalks, lifeguards, lifesavers, lifesaving, lightfaces, luciferase, manfulness, manifestly, mayflowers, oriflammes, paddlefish, parfleches, parfleshes, persiflage, pilferages, playfields, presageful, qualifiers, rafflesias, reclassify, reflations, reinflates, rijsttafel, safelights, safflowers, sailfishes, salverform, satchelful, scaffolded, semifeudal, semifinals, semiformal, shamefully, snowflakes, softballer, starflower, stepfamily, sufferable, sufferably, sulfatases, sulfonated, sulfonates, superflack, tastefully, teacupfuls, teacupsful, toadflaxes, transferal, unfeasible, wastefully, waterfalls, waterfowls, waterleafs, welfarisms, welfarists, wolfsbanes, zinfandels.

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