Hoax is valid Scrabble Word

Is hoax a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is hoax valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

4 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for HOAX in dictionary:

VERB:

to deceive
trick or deceive (someone).
To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively.
subject to a playful hoax or joke
deceive or play a trick upon

NOUN:

a humorous or malicious deception
deception or trick
A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke.
something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

Words related to HOAX

hoaxed17 hoaxer16 hoaxers17 hoaxes16 hoaxing18

Words that contain HOAX

hoaxed17 hoaxer16 hoaxes16 hoaxers17 hoaxing18 orthoaxes19 orthoaxis19

How to use HOAX in a sentence

Many insisted that the cable had never been operated and that the entire affair was a hoax.
Many of these believed that it was a hoax, and general skepticism still prevailed.
But nothing happened! Madhub Babu concluded that the letter had been a hoax.
Howell, a clue that might have brought about a premature discovery of the so-called hoax.
At first I thought it was a hoax, an intentional piece of practical fun, of which I was to be the object.
Whether Liberty ever existed or not, is to us a matter of little import, since it is certain that she belongs to the grand hoax which is the whole scheme of life.
In about a week after the foregoing hoax, he got up a board, presenting a more vigorous refusal of score than the former.
Puffington could not make out what it meant, whether it was a hoax for the purpose of turning run-writing into ridicule, or it had suffered mutilation at the hands of the printer.
This is regarded as a hoax by scientific men who understand such matters.
The faces of all wore expressions of the utmost seriousness, except that of Von Koenitz, who looked as if he were participating in an elaborate hoax.

He told of the sinister hoax by the caller who had passed himself off as Lester Morris.
The call to the jail from Dimitri Mirov had been a hoax.
He has been told of a war between the North and South, but as he had never heard the din of battle, nor seen any soldiers, he considered it a hoax.
No greater hoax was ever perpetrated on the public than that in one of our illustrated papers, which gave a picture of an elephant hurdle-race.
Upon the reading of this message to the convention, it was openly declared to be a hoax, not one member in twenty believing that a message could possibly have been received.
He hurried home, but it proved to be a hoax, for they were all alive and well.
An account of the hoax was published in the morning paper, and that holds me up to severe ridicule.
It may be said that all five were concerned in a complicated hoax on Mr.
Southey played off a hoax with his book The Doctor.
Lewis on 23rd November, which, like the other, was probably a hoax.
The old artist understood beyond a doubt that he had been the victim of some cowardly hoax.
On another occasion he spent his odd time for weeks in preparing a humorous hoax upon the critics of Chicago.
Kohlsaat gained in popularity with the colored brethren he lost in the estimation of those serious-minded souls who swallowed the hoax.
A find of lead was reported from the Gaspe peninsula, but an investigation proved it to be a hoax.
At first it was thought by many to be a mischievous hoax, but it was soon found to be stern reality.
She was explaining to them volubly, and to the accompaniment of sundry half-hysterical little cries, the infamous hoax to which she had fallen a victim.
Probably a translation of the celebrated Moon hoax, written by Richard A.
What shall I do with them? For if we do not hear from him soon, we must conclude that he is lost, and the report of his escape all a hoax.
Was it just a hoax? The suppressed unnatural silence sounded like it.
The first thing she realized when the processes of thought began again was that even if there had been a hoax, she was not, in the event, the victim of it.

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