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fraud

UK /ˈfɹɔːd/noun

fraud is spelled F-R-A-U-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 23 times per million words in written English, the 3,814th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, fraud means “The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of fraud is frauds.

How many letters and syllables are in fraud?

Letters5: F-R-A-U-D
Syllables1
In writing23 times per million words; the 3,814th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is fraud?

Fraud appears 23 times per million words in written English, the 3,814th 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).

How do you pronounce fraud?

  • UK /ˈfɹɔːd/
  • UK [ˈfɹʷɔːd]
  • British /ˈfɹoːd/

Fraud has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fraud.wav, En-us-fraud.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with fraud?

10 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as fraud from its last stressed vowel (/ɔd/, British pronunciation):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of fraud

  • frauds plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • frauding participle, present
  • frauded participle, past

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

What does fraud mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.

  2. 2

    Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.

  3. 3

    The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.

  4. 4

    A person who performs any such trick.

  5. 5

    obsoleteA trap or snare.

verb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo defraud.

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

Fraud in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchfraude (act of deception), imposteur, charlatan, fraudeur (one who performs fraud)
GermanBetrug, Schwindel (act of deception), Betrüger, Betrügerin, Hochstapler (one who performs fraud), Hochstapelei (assumption of a false identity to such…)
Portuguesefraude, falcatrua, logro, estelionato (act of deception), fraudador (one who performs fraud), falsidade ideológica (assumption of a false identity to such…)
Spanishfraude, dolo, trafa (act of deception), defraudador (one who performs fraud), fraudar (defraud)

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 fraud come from?

Inherited from Middle English fraude (recorded since 1345), from Old French fraude, a borrowing from Latin fraus (“deceit, injury, offence”).

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

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