dupery

Questions about dupery

What does dupery mean?

dupery means "something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage".

How many syllables are in dupery?

dupery has 3 syllables and divides as du-pe-ry 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 dupery?

Close synonyms include fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, put-on. 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 dupery a common word?

dupery 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.