# falsification

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #52,308

## Definitions
1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
2. A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.
3. The act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.

## Etymology
From false + -ification.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/falsification