cheater

Other forms of cheater

plural

cheaters·

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 cheater

What does cheater mean?

cheater means "someone who leads you to believe something that is not true".

How many syllables are in cheater?

cheater has 2 syllables: chea-ter. The stress falls on "chea". In IPA it is /ˈtʃitɚ/.

What is another word for cheater?

Close synonyms include deceiver, cheat, trickster, beguiler, slicker. 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 cheater a common word?

cheater is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.