fraudulence
/ˈfɹɔː.djʊ.l(ə)ns/
"fraudulence" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fraudulence” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The condition of being fraudulent; deceitfulness.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fraudulence |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfɹɔː.djʊ.l(ə)ns/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fraudulence” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for fraudulence is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈfɹɔː.djʊ.l(ə)ns/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The condition of being fraudulent; deceitfulness.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fraudulence, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old French fraudulence, from Latin fraudulentia (“deceitfulness, disposition to defraud; fraudulence”), from fraudulentus (“deceitful, fraudulent”) + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns). Fraudulentus is derived from fraus (“deceit, fraud”) (from Proto-… The correct English form is fraudulence, spelled F-R-A-U-D-U-L-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1The condition of being fraudulent; deceitfulness.
Etymology
From Old French fraudulence, from Latin fraudulentia (“deceitfulness, disposition to defraud; fraudulence”), from fraudulentus (“deceitful, fraudulent”) + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns). Fraudulentus is derived from fraus (“deceit, fraud”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrew- (“to mislead”)) + -ulentus (“abounding in, full of”).
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “fraudulence”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-R-A-U-D-U-L-E-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.