Impostor

//ɪmˈpɒstə//

Synonyms for "impostor" (102 found)

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Closest matches (21)

impersonator imposter ape beguiler blagueur bluff bluffer charlatan cheat clinquant con man confidence man conformist copier copycat copyist counterfeit counterfeiter cuckoo deceiver

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dissembler

Strong matches (30)

dissimulator dummy echo echoer echoist fake fakement faker flimflam man forger forgery fourflusher frame up frame-up fraud hoax humbug hypocrite imitation imitator

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junk malingerer mime mimer mimic

Noun(5 words)

fake faker fraud impersonator imposter

Related words (51)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

6 entries

beguiler cheat cheater deceiver slicker trickster

More specific

1 entries

quack

Synonyms

2 entries

impersonator imposter

coordinate

1 entries

billboard

derived

8 entries

imposterous impostor phenomenon impostor syndrome impostorism impostorship impostress impostrix supernova impostor

related to

4 entries

assumed deceive identity name

Translations

58 translations across 36 languages.

Basque

1 entries

iruzurti noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Belarusian

1 entries

самазва́нец noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Bulgarian

2 entries

измамник noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
мошеник noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Catalan

1 entries

impostor noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

冒充者 noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
騙子 /骗子 noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Czech

3 entries

hochštapler noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
napodobitel noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
podvodník noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Danish

1 entries

bedrager noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Dutch

2 entries

bedrieger noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
bedriegster noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Esperanto

1 entries

trompanto noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Faroese

3 entries

kritlari noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
svikari noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
svindlari noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Finnish

2 entries

huijari noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
toiseksi tekeytyjä noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

French

3 entries

imposteur noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
imposteuse noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
impostrice noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Galician

1 entries

impostor noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Georgian

1 entries

თვითმარქვია noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

German

2 entries

Betrüger noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
Hochstapler noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Hebrew

1 entries

מתחזה noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Hindi

1 entries

बहरूपिया noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Hungarian

3 entries

csaló noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
imposztor noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
szélhámos noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Italian

1 entries

impostore noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Japanese

1 entries

偽者 noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Khmer

1 entries

អ្នកក្លែងបន្លំ noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Korean

1 entries

사기꾼 noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Latin

1 entries

planus noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Latvian

1 entries

viltvārdis noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Lithuanian

2 entries

apgavikas noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
apsimetėlis noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Macedonian

2 entries

и́змамник noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
само́званец noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

bedrager noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

آینهجی noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Polish

3 entries

hochsztapler noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
impostor noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
samozwaniec noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Portuguese

2 entries

impostor noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
impostora noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Romanian

2 entries

impostoare noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
impostor noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Russian

1 entries

самозва́нец noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

samozvanac noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
varalica noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Spanish

2 entries

impostor noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
impostora noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Swedish

1 entries

bedragare noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Ukrainian

2 entries

самозва́нець noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)
самозва́нка noun (someone who uses an assumed identity)

Sample sentences

15 total sentences available.

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His father is an impostor.

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I feel like an impostor.

Source: tatoeba (2476752)

Tom is an impostor.

Source: tatoeba (4494971)

The impostor has been caught.

Source: tatoeba (4496332)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.