faker

Other forms of faker

plural

fakers·

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 faker

What does faker mean?

faker means "a person who makes deceitful pretenses".

How many syllables are in faker?

faker has 2 syllables: fa-ker. The stress falls on "fa". In IPA it is /ˈfeɪkɚ/.

What is another word for faker?

Close synonyms include imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, fraud. 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 faker a common word?

faker is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.