scammer

Other forms of scammer

plural

scammers·

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 scammer

What does scammer mean?

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

How many syllables are in scammer?

scammer has 2 syllables: scam-mer. The stress falls on "scam". In IPA it is /ˈskæmɚ/.

What is another word for scammer?

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

scammer 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.