scam

Other forms of scam

plural

scams·

past tense

scammed·

present participle

scamming·

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 scam

What does scam mean?

scam means "a fraudulent business scheme". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scam?

scam has 1 syllable: scam. In IPA it is /ˈskæm/.

What is another word for scam?

Close synonyms include cozenage, victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick. 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 scam a common word?

scam is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.