fraudster
/ˈfɹɔdstɚ/
"fraudster" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fraudster” is uncommon English (frequency #53,556 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,556
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who carries out fraud; a swindler.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fraudster · fraudster · English
fraudster · rank #53,556 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,556
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH foundries
Nearest frequency peer: foundries (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “fraudster”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Fonseca
Fonseca
46,448 corpus weight
- fortis
fortis
46,447 corpus weight
- foundries
foundries
46,446 corpus weight
- fraudster
fraudster
46,445 corpus weight
- frazzled
frazzled
46,444 corpus weight
- fren
fren
46,443 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fraudster” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fraudster |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfɹɔdstɚ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fraudster” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fraudster is uncommon English at frequency #53,556 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfɹɔdstɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who carries out fraud; a swindler.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fraudster, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From fraud + -ster. The correct English form is fraudster, spelled F-R-A-U-D-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person who carries out fraud; a swindler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fraudster appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
2016 Eric Andrew-Gee Why and how Ontarians change their names in the 21st century The Globe and Mail With a few exceptions, all those changes were published in the Ontario Gazette, a little-read compendium of government business that comes out every week. The province requires this by law, as do most Canadian jurisdictions, nominally to thwart fraudsters…
CPS MerseyCheshire welcomes the jailing of Helen Dove who conned her friend into giving up her job for a dream post that never existed. Kimberley McDonnell lost around £50,000 because of the fraudster.
Etymology
From fraud + -ster.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).