Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Fraudulent

Definition: Fraudulent

Fraudulent

Adjective

1. Intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes".

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

Date "fraudulent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Fraudulent \Fraud"u*lent\, adjective. [Latin expression fraudulentus, from fraus, fraudis, frand: compare to the French expression fraudulent.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Fraud

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Fraud is, roughly, the crime or offense of deliberately deceiving another in order to damage him -- usually, to obtain property or services from him unjustly. [1]

Forms of fraud include confidence tricks such as the 419 fraud; false advertising; identity theft; forgery of documents or signatures; the selling of products of spurious use, such as quack medicines; creation of false companies or "long firms"; false insurance claims; and securities frauds such as pump and dump.

See also:

Top     

Synonyms: Fraudulent

Synonyms: deceitful (adj), fallacious (adj). (additional references)

Top     

Synonyms within Context: Fraudulent

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Deception

Untrue; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide, pseudo, spurious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious;bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated; catchpenny; Brummagem.

Falsehood

Adjective: false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless; unfair, uncandid; hollow-hearted; evasive; uningenuous, disingenuous; hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior; forsworn.

Improbity

Adjective: dishonest, dishonorable; unconscientious, unscrupulous; fraudulent; knavish; disgraceful; (disreputable); wicked.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Top     

Crosswords: Fraudulent

English words defined with "fraudulent": Barratry, bastard, blue sky law, boguscheat, collusive, conniving, Covinous, cozenagedeceit, deceitful, defalcation, dishonest, dishonorable, duplicityElusory, embezzlementfake, fallacious, False token, Fraudful, fraudulence, Fraudulency, fraudulentlyhonest, honorableimpersonatemanipulate, misapplication, misappropriationpeculation, personate, phoney, phony, poserigscam, Subreption, swindleTo count out, To shuffe upUndesigning. (references)
Specialty definitions using "fraudulent": balloon reflector, brown-outdétournement de fonds, data manipulation, DIRECTOR, SECURITIES AND REAL ESTATEExpedited RemovalHorseLOST-CHARGE-CARD CLERKMANAGER, CREDIT AND COLLECTION, mutuel cashierobtaining a false certificate by fraudparimutuel cashier, PARIMUTUEL-TICKET CASHIERRabbleScientific Misconduct, Swiss lapisVarnishing. (references)

Top     

Modern Usage: Fraudulent

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Fraudulent Beggar (1901)

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

Top     

Commercial Usage: Fraudulent

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Treatise on Fraudulent Conveyances and Creditors' Bills: With a Discussion of Void and Voidable Acts (reference)

  • Elizabethan Literature and the Law of Fraudulent Conveyance: Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare (reference)

  • False Prophets or Fraudulent Mediums of the Christian Bible (reference)

  • Fraudulent Conveyances and Preferences (reference)

  • Fraudulent Credentials (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

Top     

Non-Fiction Usage: Fraudulent

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Exercise caution--some of these drugs may have fraudulent claims, and others may actually hurt your child. (references)

Business

Additionally, Singapore has a number of programs on IPR and is working to bring down the piracy rate. The government has implemented enforcement measures to curb fraudulent activity on the Internet, such as sale of unlicensed products. (references)

The largest market for franchising outside the United States is the European Union (EU); the countries are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. In the United Kingdom, franchising began slowly in the 1950s and 1960s because it was associated initially with the fraudulent pyramid schemes. (references)

There will be continued pressure from the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Finance to keep drug prices down. This pressure will be countered by the multinational pharmaceutical companies that will attempt to obtain premium prices to prevent parallel trade once Poland enters the EU. Abuses of the reimbursement system will come under greater scrutiny as the Sick Funds attempt to stamp out fraudulent claims. (references)

Children

Cambodia

There were several documented cases in which individuals or organizations purchased infants or children from their natural parents, created fraudulent paper trails to document the children as orphans, and then earned substantial profits from fees or donations from unwitting adoptive families, including foreign families. (references)

Civil Liberties

Tunisia

The amended Press Code replaces prison sentences with increased fines as the penalty for fraudulent use of one's name for publishing purposes. (references)

Marshall Islands

In 1996 the Government sold "investment" passports to approximately 3,000 non-Marshallese to attract foreign investment; however, it halted this practice in 1997, following allegations of abuses and fraudulent passport sales (which conveyed citizenship). (references)

Economic History

Guatemala

They denounced Guevara's electoral victory as fraudulent. (references)

Guyana

During that time- frame, elections were viewed in Guyana and abroad as fraudulent. (references)

Brazil

Trademarks-- The fraudulent use of internationally "famous" marks has been a significant problem in Brazil. (references)

Human Rights

Romania

Dombi had been issued a warrant to serve an additional year of a 3-year sentence for fraudulent insurance schemes. (references)

Tanzania

Mrema was scheduled to be tried in February for three charges of sedition, based on the claim that he presented fraudulent documents to Parliament. (references)

Minorities

Kuwait

Purchasing a fraudulent passport allows bidoon to receive a residency permit and other civil documents, to marry, and to work. (references)

Political Economy

Kuwait

The number of bidoon purchasing fraudulent passports reportedly is on the rise. (references)

Mauritania

Taya was reelected President with more than 90 percent of the vote in 1997 elections widely regarded as fraudulent. (references)

Gabon

Elections for the Presidency and the National Assembly generally have not been free and fair but have varied widely in quality; some suffered chiefly from poor organization, while others were fraudulent. (references)

Political Rights

Madagascar

Other parties criticized the elections as poorly organized and fraudulent; a lack of transparency made it difficult to assess reliably the extent of abuses. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

The February 1996 presidential election, in which President Obiang claimed reelection with 98 percent of the vote, was considered openly fraudulent by international observers. (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

Spain

Fines are not very large, usually around USD 30 or USD 40. These, in and of themselves, do not include fraudulent actions. (references)

Nigeria

U.S. firms also are advised that fraudulent business practices involving bogus financial documents through non-existent banks are common. (references)

China

A recent crackdown on fraudulent VAT rebate application has made rebates completely unavailable in some areas of Guangdong and Fujian provinces. (references)

Travel

Nigeria

These are usually both fraudulent and illegal and could involve situations that potentially violate both Nigerian and U.S. law. (references)

Nigeria

However, a major development in the past few years is the fraudulent business scams that target foreigners, including a significant number of U.S. citizens. (references)

Nigeria

The most common form of Nigerian fraudulent business schemes, the advance fee fraud, popularly known as "419", involves an offer to transfer large sums of money with promises of commissions after up-front payments are made by the potential victim. (references)

Worker Rights

Zimbabwe

Some were forced to sign fraudulent contracts. (references)

Russia

The penalty for violating border laws with fraudulent documents was up to 3 years. (references)

China

The smuggling rings that trafficked them often restrict their movements, and their travel documents, which are often fraudulent, frequently are confiscated. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable -- omnipotent on condition that it do nothing. (The word is Aristocratese, and has no exact equivalent in our tongue, but means, as nearly as may be, "soaring swine.")

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

Top     

Speeches: Fraudulent

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

James Monroe

1817-1825An early accommodation of differences will, it is hoped, prevent all such fraudulent and pernicious practices, and place the relations of the two countries on a very amicable and permanent basis.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837The honest veteran has nothing to fear from such a scrutiny, while the fraudulent claimant will be detected and the public Treasury relieved to an amount, I have reason to believe, far greater than has heretofore been suspected.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Usage Frequency: Fraudulent

"Fraudulent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.62% of the time. "Fraudulent" is used about 264 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)99.62%26318,193
Noun (proper)0.38%1339,140
                    Total100.00%264N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top     

Expression: Fraudulent

Expressions using "fraudulent": breach of trust with fraudulent intent fraudulent bankruptcy fraudulent behavior fraudulent conversion fraudulent falsification fraudulent gain fraudulent misuse of a computer fraudulent misuse of funds fraudulent representation fraudulent scheme. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "fraudulent": non-fraudulent.

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

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fraudulent

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fraudulent

15

fraudulent misrepresentation

3

fraudulent conveyance

11

escrow fraudulent site

3

fraudulent inducement

7

fraudulent site

3

fraudulent transfer

7

claim fraudulent medical

2

business fraudulent

5

business fraudulent lawsuit

2

enlistment fraudulent

5

fraudulent site web

2

check fraudulent

4

cashier check fraudulent

2

fraudulent email

4

fraudulent marriage

2

company fraudulent

3

court district false filing fraudulent injunction misleading new sec york

2

act fraudulent transfer uniform

3

fraudulent rumor

2

compensation elements fraud fraudulent nebraska proof prove worker

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translation: Fraudulent

Language Translations for "fraudulent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

mashtrues (ambidextrous, artful, bilker, bluffer, bouncer, catchy, cheat, Crimp, deceitful, deceiver, deceptive, delusive, delusory, diddler, dishonest, dodger, double, double dealing, double-dealer, finagler, fraud, 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), hileqar (blackleg, cheat, tricky). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏محتال (bluff, deceitful, hustler, rogue, trickster), ‏مخادع (artful, bluff, bluffer, crafty, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, devious, dishonest, disingenuous, double, double dealing, double-tongued, face, false, hustler, illusive, illusory, indirect, insincere, misguiding, misleading, sly, trickish, tricky, underhand, wily). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

мошенически (dishonest, fast, knavish, phoney, phony, rascally, roguish, scoundrelly, tricky), подправен (adulterate, adulterine, corrupt, counterfeit, feigned, forged, imitation, impure, pinchbeck, queer, seasoned, sham, spiced, spicy, supposititious), измамлив (deceptive, delusive, delusory, guileful, illusory, unsound). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

欺骗 (Bamboozle, Bamboozled, Bamboozling, Deceit, Deceive, Deceived, Deceiving, Deception, Deceptive, Delude, Deluded, Deluding, Foxed, Foxing, fraud, humbug, Impostrous, Imposturous, Kidded, Kidding, ripoff, rip-off, Tricked, tricked-out, Tricking). (various references)

   

Czech

  

podvodný (bogus, crooked, deceitful, improper). (various references)

   

Danish

  

falske franchiser (false franchises, fraudulent franchises), uægte franchiser (false franchises, fraudulent franchises), tjenesteveksel (accommodation bill, cerf volant, fictitious bill, finance bill, financial bill, financial note, financial paper, fraudulent note, kite, wind bill, windmill), svigagtige franchiser (false franchises, fraudulent franchises), svigagtig handling (fraudulent operation), svigagtig fremgangsmaade (fraudulent practices), svigagtig brug af telex (fraudulent telex call), omstoedelse (challenge, challenge of antecedent transactions, challenge to a fraudulent preference), misbrug (abuse, fraudulent practices, infringement of rights of another, violation), bedragerisk hensigt (fraudulent intent). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

frauduleuze handelingen (fraudulent practices, sham transaction), frauduleus bankroet (fraudulent bankruptcy), frauduleuze handeling (fraudulent act), frauduleuze telex-communicatie (fraudulent telex call), frauduleuze actie (fraudulent operation), valse aangifte (false declaration, fraudulent declaration, incorrect declaration), bedriegelijke bedoeling (fraudulent intent), bedrieglijke aangifte (fraudulent declaration), bedrieglijke bankbreuk (fraudulent bankruptcy), bedrieglijke bedoeling (fraudulent intent), bedrieglijke handelingen (cheating, fraudulent representation, misrepresentation, sham transaction, swindling), dading,aangegaan onder bedrog (fraudulent transaction), nietigheid (vanity), accomodatiewissel (cerf volant, fictitious bill, fraudulent note, wind bill), schoorsteenwissel (cerf volant, fictitious bill, fraudulent note, wind bill), verduistering van overheidsgelden (fraudulent conversion of public moneys), ruiterwissel (cerf volant, fictitious bill, fraudulent note, wind bill), nulliteit (challenge, challenge of antecedent transactions, challenge to a fraudulent preference), malafide franchise-keten (false franchises, fraudulent franchises), complaisance-papier (cerf volant, fictitious bill, fraudulent note, wind bill). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vilpillinen (deceitful, dishonest, false), petollinen (deceitful, deceptive, delusive, false, treacherous). (various references)

   

French

  

frauduleux, fourbe, dupeur. (various references)

   

German

  

betrügerisch (deceitful, deceitfully, fraudulently, surreptitious). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απατηλόσ (catchy, colorable, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, elusive, elusory, fallacious, hollow, illusive, illusory, specious, tricky), απατηλός (deceitful, deceptive), δόλιοσ (deceitful, dishonest, guileful, lurking, sly, snaky, trappy, treacherous, two faced, underhand, underhanded, wily). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

רמאי (cheat, cheater, cheating, deceiver, duper, humbug, impostor, mountebank, ringer, rogue, scoundrel, sharper, sneaky, swindler, trickster). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fondorlatos (devious, guileful, malicious, shrewd, tainted with fraud), csaló (abuser, bilk, blackleg, bobber, cheat, colubrine, crook, deceitful, double-dealer, fake, faker, fiddler, fraud, gouge, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, jockey, juggler, leg, masquerader, picaroon, piker, rogue, roguish, rook, rooky, shark, sharper, skinner, snide, swindler, trickster). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

curang (deceitful, dishonest), curam (abrupt, deceitful, steep). (various references)

   

Italian

  

fraudolento. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

欺瞞的 (deceptive). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぎま"てき (deceptive). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

사기 (fraud, lie, morale). (various references)

   

Manx

  

molteyragh (captivating, deceptive, fallacious, insidious). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

falsk (false), svikefull (deceitful). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

audulentfray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

fraudulento (cheating, dishonest). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

necinstit (crooked, dirty, dishonest, dishonestly, disingenuous, faithless, foul, knavish, knavishly, low down, meretricious, perfidious, raw, rotten, unfair, unfaithful, unlawful). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

мошеннический (dishonest, knavish, rascally). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

foilleil (deceitful, treacherous). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prevarljiv. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fraudulento (bogus, dishonest). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

svekfull (deceitful, deceptive, perfidious, treacherous), bedrägliga, bedräglig (cheated, colorable, colourable, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, elusive, fallacious, false, illusive, illusory, underhand). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sahtekâr (counterfeiter, crook, crooked, dishonest, double-tongued, fabricator, fake, faker, fakir, forger, fraud, impostor, make believe, phoney, phony, sham, shammer), sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, Duff, dummy, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forged, 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), hileli (dishonest, false, sharp, tortuous, trick, trickish, tricksy, tricky, twisty, unfair), hilekâr (cheat, cheater, con, con man, crooked, cross, deceitful, deceiver, double-tongued, faithless, foul, fraud, funk, gadgety, guileful, hard boiled, knavish, trickster, twister), hilebaz (blackleg, cardsharp, cardsharper, cheat, cheater, deceitful, foul, fraud, gyp, juggler, rook, serpentine, sharper, shuffling, trickster), dolandırıcı (adventurer, bilker, carpet bagger, cheat, cheater, chiseler, chiseller, confidence man, confidence trickster, crook, crooked, deceitful, double-dealer, faker, fakir, fiddler, fraud, grifter, gyp, hustler, impostor, knave, lurcher, rogue, sham, shark, sharp, spieler, swindler, Twicer). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

шахрайський (pettifogging, picaresque, puckish, rascally, snide), обманний (deceitful), облудний (affected, captious, counterfeit, deceitful, illusive, put on). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

mắc tội gian lận; mắc tội lừa lọc có ý gian lận, do lừa lọc; đi lừa được, có ý lừa lọc do gian lận. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Ancestral Language Translations: Fraudulent

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

fraudulenta, fraudulenti, fraudulentus. (various references)

Sanskrit300 BCE-Modern

sthaga-s. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Derivations & Misspellings: Fraudulent

Derivations

Words beginning with "fraudulent": fraudulently, fraudulentness, fraudulentnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Fraudulent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fradulent, fraudelent, fraudlent, fraudulant, fraudulen, fraudulend. (additional references)

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

Top     

Rhyming with "Fraudulent"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "fraudulent" (pronounced frô"julunt)
6-j u l u n tvigilant.
5-u l u n tambivalent, benevolent, equivalent, excellent, flatulent, indolent, insolent, jubilant, malevolent, nonviolent, opulent, petulant, prevalent, somnolent, stimulant, succulent, truculent, turbulent, violent, virulent.
4-l u n tassailant, coolant, divalent, esculent, gallant, inhalant, monovalent, propellant, repellent, sealant, silent, talent, tetravalent.
3-u n tagent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, errant, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, frequent, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, solvent, stagnant, statement, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, tumescent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, warrant, wonderment.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Top     

Anagrams: Fraudulent

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-l-n-r-t-u-u"

-2 letters: dentural, flaunted, flaunter, unartful, undulate, unfurled.

-3 letters: dareful, daunter, default, faulted, flaneur, frenula, funeral, futural, launder, lunated, lurdane, natured, neurula, neutral, refutal, rundlet, tearful, trundle, tuneful, unadult, undular, unrated, unruled, untread.

-4 letters: antler, ardent, artful, aulder, auteur, dafter, darnel, dartle, dental, earful, eluant, falter, fardel, ferula, feudal, flared, flaunt, fluent, fluted, fluter, furane.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-l-n-r-t-u-u"
 

+2 letters: fraudulently, unformulated.

 

+4 letters: fraudulentness.

 

+5 letters: desulfurization.

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.

Top     



INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Quotations: Speeches
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Translations: Ancient
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.