- Types Of Speech
- You can use pretend as a noun, adjective satellite or as a verb in a sentence.
- About Pretend
- A 2 syllables noun and 7 letters with the letters d, e, n, p, r, and t, 5 consonants, 2 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letter t. Pretend starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters p, pr, pre, pret, prete, and the ending characters are d, nd, end, tend, etend, ..
- Definition
- The enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend"
- Origin/Roots
- Anglo Norman
- School Grade
- Pretend is set as a grade five word that starts with p, ends with d, 2 syllables, 2 vowels and 7 letters.
- Scrabble
- Is pretend a scrabble word? A 10 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Pretend in Pig Latin is said as "etendpray or etendprway".
- Unigram
- p | r | e | t | e | n | d
- Bigram
- pr | re | et | te | en | nd
- Trigram
- pre | ret | ete | ten | end
- Quadrigram
- pret | rete | eten | tend
- Word Gram
- Noun Examples
- the enactment of a pretense;
"it was just pretend"
- Verb Examples
- state insincerely;
"He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt";
"She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber";
"She pretends to be an expert on wine" - make believe with the intent to deceive;
"He feigned that he was ill";
"He shammed a headache" - represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like;
"She makes like an actress" - put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation;
"I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again";
"I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong" - behave unnaturally or affectedly;
"She's just acting" - put forward a claim and assert right or possession of;
"pretend the title of King"
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- imagined as in a play;
"the make-believe world of theater";
"play money";
"dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Absorb | cause to become one with "The sales tax is absorbed into the state income tax" |
| Act | something that people do or cause to happen |
| Act A Part | |
| Act Superior | |
| Adopt | take into one''s family "They adopted two children from Nicaragua" |
| Affect | the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion |
| Aggrandise | add details to |
| Aggrandize | add details to |
| Aim To | |
| Allege | report or maintain "He alleged that he was the victim of a crime" "He said it was too late to intervene in the war" "The registrar says that I owe the school money" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Pretend
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Pretend | the enactment of a pretense "it was just pretend" |
View English words with the unique letters used in pretend. Words With The Letters Denprt
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Make | the act of mixing cards haphazardly |
| Make Believe | |
| Pretend | the enactment of a pretense "it was just pretend" |
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Feigning | the act of giving a false appearance "his conformity was only pretending" |
| Pretence | the act of giving a false appearance "his conformity was only pretending" |
| Pretending | the act of giving a false appearance "his conformity was only pretending" |
| Pretense | the act of giving a false appearance "his conformity was only pretending" |
| Simulation | the act of giving a false appearance "his conformity was only pretending" |
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pretend (7 letters) | 10 | 12 | ptdeenr | ||
| Underpart (9 letters) | 12 +2 | 15 +3 | underpart | ||
| Precedent (9 letters) | 14 +4 | 17 +5 | cdeeenprt | ||
| Pedantry (8 letters) | 14 +4 | 15 +3 | pedantry | ||
| Pretender (9 letters) | 12 +2 | 14 +2 | pretender | ||
| Put Under (9 letters) | |||||
| Punctured (9 letters) | 14 +4 | 19 +7 | cdenprtuu | ||
| Prudent (7 letters) | 10 | 13 +1 | prudent | ||
| Pretended (9 letters) | 13 +3 | 15 +3 | pretended | ||
| Parented (8 letters) | 11 +1 | 13 +1 | parented | ||
| Patterned (9 letters) | 12 +2 | 14 +2 | patterned | ||
| Upturned (8 letters) | 11 +1 | 15 +3 | denprtuu | ||
| Pandurate (9 letters) | 12 +2 | 15 +3 | pandurate | ||
| Uptrend (7 letters) | 10 | 13 +1 | prudent | ||
| Turned Up (9 letters) | |||||
| Repetend (8 letters) | 11 +1 | 13 +1 | repetend | ||
| Depurant (8 letters) | 11 +1 | 14 +2 | depurant | ||
| Partnered (9 letters) | 12 +2 | 14 +2 | partnered | ||
| Encrypted (9 letters) | 17 +7 | 19 +7 | encrypted |
Pretend Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With P
- Ends With D
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
loading...
