Crossword-Solution: FAKE 4 letters, 303 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Fake	n.	One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
Fake	v. t.	To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.
Fake	v. t.	To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
Fake	v. t.	To make; to construct; to do.
Fake	v. t.	To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
Fake	n.	A trick; a swindle.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
FAKE	anagram	KEFA

We have 303 clues for the answer “FAKE”

Clue	Answers
Art buyer's concern	1 answer
Art exhibit embarrassment	1 answer
Art expert's discovery	1 answer
Art world fraud	1 answer
Bona fide? No	1 answer
CONTRIVE in order to deceive	1 answer
CONTRIVE out of poor material	1 answer
Certain "Antiques Roadshow" discovery	1 answer
Clifford Irving's "Autobiography of Howard Hughes," e.g.	1 answer
Coil (a rope).	1 answer
Counterfeit thing	1 answer
Cry wolf or play possum	1 answer
Deceptive play	1 answer
Embarrassment for a curator	1 answer
Embarrassment for an art curator	1 answer
Expert's discovery	1 answer
Go one way and then the other, say	1 answer
Handoff that isn't	1 answer
Hoops move	1 answer
How bad C.G.I. looks	1 answer
Like C.G.I.	1 answer
Like a flea-market Gucci, probably	1 answer
Like an orange tan, say	1 answer
Like bot accounts on social media	1 answer
Like fair-weather friends	1 answer
Like knockoff goods	1 answer
Like lashes and tattoos that come off	1 answer
Like many Rolex watches sold on the street	1 answer
Like some IDs	1 answer
Like some furs	1 answer
Like some lashes and tans	1 answer
Like some plants that don't need watering	1 answer
Loop of coiled rope.	1 answer
MAKE specious	1 answer
Made of paste, say	1 answer
Museum embarrassment	1 answer
Not bona fide	1 answer
Not genuine: Colloq.	1 answer
Play possum or cry wolf	1 answer
Popular kind of fur	1 answer
Pretend shot	1 answer
QB's feint	1 answer
Rolex bought on the street, probably	1 answer
Seether "___ It"	1 answer
Sham, counterfeit	1 answer
Sham: Colloq.	1 answer
Street vendor's Gucci, most likely	1 answer
TAMPER with in order to deceive	1 answer
Three-dollar bill	1 answer
Word before news or fur	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ERAET

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with FAKE (5)

Armando Stettner, one of the early UNIX developers, used to give out fake license plates bearing this motto under a large UNIX, all in New Hampshire colors of green and white.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

That’s the only thing that isn’t fake—making men and machines go, and actually turning out a product.” The doctor poured himself some white cordial and looked over the little glass into the fire with an expression which led Ottenburg to believe that he was getting at something in his own mind.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Triple-distilled lunacy!" "My dear fellow," said Roger, "I was the fool to be lured off by a fake telephone call.

The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley 2008

The whole of this affair of the ropes is a clever fake, to make us think him the victim of the struggle instead of the wretched Glass, whose corpse may be hidden in the garden or stuffed up the chimney.” There was a rather depressed silence; the room was darkening, the sea-blighted boughs of the garden trees looked leaner and blacker than ever, yet they seemed to have come nearer to the window.

The Wisdom of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1995

The attention the Fake received, the time devoted to it, the money which it absorbed, were incredible.

The Octopus Frank Norris 2008

Quotes with FAKE (3)

Voicemail #1: “Hi, Isabel Culpeper. I am lying in my bed, looking at the ceiling. I am mostly naked. I am thinking of … your mother. Call me.” Voicemail #2: The first minute and thirty seconds of “I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You” by the Bee Gees. Voicemail #3: “I’m bored. I need to be entertained. Sam is moping. I may kill him with his own guitar. It would give me something to do and also make him say something. Two birds with one stone! I find all these old expressions unnec…

Maggie Stiefvater Forever

We love men because they can never fake orgasms, even if they wanted to. Because they write poems, songs, and books in our honor. Because they never understand us, but they never give up. Because they can see beauty in women when women have long ceased to see any beauty in themselves. Because they come from little boys. Because they can churn out long, intricate, Machiavellian, or incredibly complex mathematics and physics equations, but they can be comparably clueless when i…

Paulo Coelho

Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake?

Steve Maraboli Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 158 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).