mountebank

Questions about mountebank

What does mountebank mean?

mountebank means "a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes".

How many syllables are in mountebank?

mountebank has 3 syllables and divides as moun-te-bank 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 mountebank?

Close synonyms include charlatan. 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 mountebank a common word?

mountebank 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.