charlatan
Plural: charlatans
Noun
- a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
- A mountebank, someone who addresses crowds in the street; (especially), an itinerant seller of medicines or drugs.
- A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle French charlatan, from Old Italian ciarlatano (“quack”), a blend of ciarlatore (“chatterer”) + cerretano (“hawker, quack”, literally “native of Cerreto”) (Cerreto di Spoleto being a village in Umbria, known for its quacks).
Synonyms
mountebank, Scandaroon, Spanish athlete, bamboozler, bouncer, bullshitter, cheat, cheater, cogger, cony-catcher, crammer, deceiver, deceptor, fabricator, fabulist, falser, gabber, grifter, guiler, liar, losenger, mocker, pseudologist, rook, scammer, shammer, swike, swindler, treacher, trickster, trucker, wernard
Scrabble Score: 14
charlatan: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcharlatan: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
charlatan: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary