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fibber

noun

fibber is a noun meaning “A liar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-B-B-E-R, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fibber is fibbers.

What does fibber mean?

noun

  1. 1

    informalrareA liar.

noun

as Fibber
  1. 1

    derogatoryslangAn FBI agent.

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

Forms of fibber

  • fibbers plural

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

How common is fibber?

Fibber appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd 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).

Fibber in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense a liar:

LanguageWords
GermanSchwindler, Flunkerer

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does fibber come from?

From fib (“to lie”) + -er.

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