bunko

Other forms of bunko

plural

bunkoes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bunko

What does bunko mean?

bunko means "a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property".

How many syllables are in bunko?

bunko has 2 syllables: bun-ko. The stress falls on "bun".

What is another word for bunko?

Close synonyms include bunco, bunco game, bunko game, con, confidence trick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bunko a common word?

bunko is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.