Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: hoax
- Amharic: hoax
- Arabic: خدعة
- Azerbaijani: aldadıcı
- Bashkir: алдау
- Belarusian: падман
- Bulgarian: измама
- Bengali: ধাপ্পাবাজি
- Bosnian: obmana
- Catalan: hoax
- Cebuano: panglingla
- Czech: podvod
- Welsh: ffug
- Danish: hoax
- German: hoax
- Greek: φάρσα
- Esperanto: hoax
- Spanish: engaño
- Estonian: pettus
- Basque: hoax
- Persian: جعل
- Finnish: huijaus
- French: canular
- Irish: hoax
- Scottish Gaelic: hoax
- Galician: farsa
- Gujarati: અફવા
- Hebrew: מתיחה
- Hindi: चकमा
- Croatian: varanje
- Haitian: fo
- Hungarian: átverés
- Armenian: խաբում
- Indonesian: hoax
- Icelandic: gabb
- Italian: bufala
- Japanese: hoax
- Javanese: hoax
- Georgian: ხუმრობა
- Kazakh: алдау
- Khmer: ញ្ឆោត
- Kannada: ವಂಚನೆ
- Korean: 사기
- Kyrgyz: алдоо
- Latin: dolus
- Luxembourgish: hoax
- Lao: ລອກລວງ
- Lithuanian: pasijuokti
- Latvian: mānīšana
- Malagasy: tsaho
- Mari: ондаленыт
- Maori: hoax
- Macedonian: измама
- Malayalam: hoax
- Mongolian: худлаа
- Marathi: लबाडी
- Hill Mari: алталышы
- Malay: penipuan
- Maltese: ingann
- Burmese: ပယ္ဖ်က္ခြ
- Nepali: चकमा
- Dutch: hoax
- Norwegian: spøk
- Punjabi: ਝੂਠ
- Papiamento: engaño
- Polish: oszustwo
- Portuguese: farsa
- Romanian: farsa
- Russian: обман
- Sinhalese: ප්රෝඩාවක්
- Slovak: podvod
- Slovenian: prevara
- Albanian: shaka
- Serbian: варање
- Sundanese: hoax
- Swedish: bluff
- Swahili: hoax
- Tamil: புரளி
- Telugu: బూటకపు
- Tajik: фиреб
- Thai: การเล่นตลกที่ยิ่ง
- Tagalog: hoax
- Turkish: aldatmaca
- Tatar: алдау
- Udmurt: ӧрекчаськон
- Ukrainian: обман
- Urdu: چکما
- Uzbek: hoax
- Vietnamese: trò lừa bịp
- Xhosa: hoax
- Yiddish: בלאָף
- Chinese: 骗局
Synonyms, close and similar words for hoax
- deception
- mystification
- fraud
- hype
- humbug
- trickery
- spoof
- imposture
- sham
- deceit
- fraudulence
- delusion
- trick
- phony
- canard
- falsehood
- bluff
- dupery
- forgery
- counterfeit
- dupe
- lie
- beguile
- mislead
- bamboozle