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fakey

adjective, noun

fakey is an adjective meaning “Fake” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-K-E-Y, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fakey mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    colloquialFake.

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of fakie (“biking or boarding move”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of fakey

  • more fakey comparative
  • most fakey superlative
  • faky
  • fakeys plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is fakey?

Fakey appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does fakey come from?

From fake + -y.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).