deceit

Other forms of deceit

plural

deceits·

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 deceit

What does deceit mean?

deceit means "the quality of being fraudulent". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deceit?

deceit has 2 syllables: de-ceit. The stress falls on "ceit". In IPA it is /dəˈsit/.

What is another word for deceit?

Close synonyms include fraudulence, misrepresentation, deception, deception, dissembling. 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 deceit a common word?

deceit 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.

What rhymes with deceit?

5 words rhyme with deceit. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.