The answers listed here for “Counterfeit” are not assumptions—they’ve been pulled directly from finished puzzles where solvers encountered and resolved the same clue successfully.
Answer List:
- FAKE
- SPURIOUS
- SHAM
- DUD
- BOGUS
- FORGED
- FORGE
- FRAUDULENT
- PHONY
- IMITATION
- FALSIFY
- FAKED
- SNIDE
- FORGERY
- ERSATZ
- PHONEY
- PSEUDO
- FALSE
- IMITATIVE
- IMITATE
Synonyms and Definitions
FAKE
- Synonyms: bastard, bogus, bull, bullshit, cook, faker, false, falsify, faux, forge, fraud, fudge, imitation, imposter, impostor, juke, manipulate, misrepresent, phoney, phony, postiche, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, simulated, talk through ones hat, wangle
SPURIOUS
- Synonyms: bastardly, inauthentic, misbegot, misbegotten, specious, unauthentic
SHAM
- Synonyms: affect, assume, assumed, dissemble, fake, feign, fictitious, fictive, pretend, pretended, put on, simulate
DUD
- Synonyms: bomb, flop, misfire, turkey, washout
FORGED
- Synonyms: bad, contrive, devise, excogitate, fashion, form, formulate, hammer, invent, mold, mould, shape, spirt, spurt, work
FORGE
- Synonyms: smithy
FRAUDULENT
- Synonyms: deceitful, fallacious
PHONY
- Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite
IMITATION
- Synonyms: caricature, impersonation
FALSIFY
- Synonyms: alter, distort, garble, interpolate, warp
SNIDE
- Synonyms: sneering, supercilious
ERSATZ
- Synonyms: substitute
FALSE
- Synonyms: delusive, mistaken, off-key, sour, untrue
IMITATIVE
- Synonyms: echoic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic
IMITATE
- Synonyms: copy
These answers also appear in the following pages:
- FAKE also appears as an answer in Like a designer bag with the company name misspelled crossword clue 4 letters.
- FAKE also appears as an answer in Not genuine crossword clue 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 11 letters.
- FAKE also appears as an answer in Pretend crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 and 11 letters.
- SHAM also appears as an answer in Fake crossword clue 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 letters.
- SHAM also appears as an answer in Pretense crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 letters.