Meaning and example
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
The passage used "chicanery" to mean the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.394 places chicanery in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 65.5% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
Similar-prevalence words
vicissitudeRare
- Known by
- 65.6%
a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something
temerityRare
- Known by
- 65.7%
fearless daring
inveterateRare
- Known by
- 65.1%
habitual
surfeitRare
- Known by
- 65.8%
the state of being more than full
carboniferousRare
- Known by
- 65.9%
from 345 million to 280 million years ago
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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