defrauder

Other forms of defrauder

plural

defrauders·

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 defrauder

What does defrauder mean?

defrauder means "a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud".

How many syllables are in defrauder?

defrauder has 3 syllables and divides as de-frau-der under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for defrauder?

Close synonyms include swindler, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer. 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 defrauder a common word?

defrauder 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.