10 Letter Words for Pretending
pretending
9 Letter Words for Pretending
preintend, repenting, tendering
8 Letter Words for Pretending
detering, digerent, enringed, entering, indenter, ingender, intender, interned, petering, preening, prenting, reintend, repinned, retinged, retinned, teending, trending
7 Letter Words for Pretending
deeping, denting, deprint, dereign, derning, dnieper, dreeing, endeign, energid, engined, enginer, enprint, enripen, gedrite, gentier, giterne, greined, grenned, grinned, inepter, ingener, integer, needing, negrine, nineted, nitered, peening, peering, pendent, pending, pennied, pentine, perinde, pernine, petrine, prediet, predine, preedit, preeing, prented, pretend, printed, redient, reeding, reigned, rending, renting, repined, retinge, ringent, ripened, teening, teering, teinder, tending, tepider, terning, terpine, treeing
6 Letter Words for Pretending
deeing, denier, dennet, denter, dentin, dering, diener, dieter, dingee, dinger, dinner, dipnet, dipter, dirten, dreint, edgier, edirne, eident, endent, ending, endite, endpin, endrin, engine, engird, engirt, engrid, enring, entier, entire, entrep, epigne, erning, gender, genepi, genned, gennet, gerent, gerned, ginete, ginned, ginner, ginnet, girned, girted, griped, indene, indent, ingene, ingent, intend, intern, neednt, neiper, nereid, nerine, nerite, nidget, nipter, nitred, peeing, peneid, penide, pening, penned, penner, pennet, perdie, perdit, perine, perite, perten, petrie, pignet, pinder, pinene, pinged, pinger, pinned, pinner, pinnet, pirned, pterin, reding, redipt, reedit, regent, reined, renied, renned, rennet, rented, repent, repine, retied, retine, rident, ringed, tedier, teeing, tender, tendre, tenner, tenpin, terned, terpen, terpin, tiered, tinder, tinged, tinger, tinned, tinner, tipree, trepid, triene, trined
5 Letter Words for Pretending
deign, denet, depit, derig, deter, detin, diene, digne, diner, dinge, dirge, diter, dreep, dreng, drent, drinn, dript, edger, edite, egret, egrid, eider, eigne, ender, eneid, enent, engin, enter, entre, erept, ering, erned, genep, genet, genie, genin, genip, genit, genre, gerip, gerne, getid, ginep, gnide, greed, green, greet, grein, greit, grete, gride, grind, grint, gripe, gript, ident, inept, inert, inger, inned, inner, innet, inter, irene, needn, neger, neper, nepit, neter, nidge, niger, niner, niter, peert, peine, pendn, pened, penie, penne, penni, perit, peter, petre, petri, piend, piert, pined, piner, pinge, pinte, preed, preen, prent, pride, pried, prine, print, redig, redip, reget, regie, regin, reign, reneg, renet, renig, renin, renne, rente, repeg, repen, repin, retie, retin, retip, riden, ridge, ringe, riped, ripen, tedge, teend, teind, tenge, tenne, tepid, terne, tiger, tined, tinge, tired, treed, treen, trend, tride, tried, trine, tripe
4 Letter Words for Pretending
deen, deep, deer, deet, dene, deni, dent, depe, depr, dept, dere, dern, deti, detn, dier, diet, dine, ding, dint, dipt, dire, dirt, dite, dree, dreg, drie, drip, eden, edge, edit, eger, eide, eine, eire, ende, ened, engr, entr, epit, ered, erie, erin, erne, eten, geed, geep, geer, geet, gein, geir, geit, gene, gent, gere, gied, gien, ginn, gird, gire, girn, girt, gite, gree, gren, gret, grid, grin, grip, grit, idee, inde, indn, inne, intr, ired, irpe, iter, need, neep, neer, neet, nein, nene, nerd, nete, neti, nide, nied, nine, peed, peen, peer, pend, pene, peng, peni, pent, pere, peri, pern, pert, pete, pied, pien, pier, piet, pind, pine, ping, pint, pirn, pred, pree, pret, prie, prig, prin, rede, reed, reen, reet, regd, regt, rein, reit, rend, renn, rent, rept, retd, rete, rgen, ride, rind, rine, ring, ripe, ript, rite, teed, teen, teer, tend, tene, teng, tepe, tern, terp, tide, tied, tien, tier, tige, tind, tine, ting, tipe, tire, tree, trid, trie, trig, trin, trip
3 Letter Words for Pretending
dee, deg, dei, den, dep, der, det, die, dig, din, dip, dir, dit, dpi, dpt, edp, eeg, een, eer, eir, end, ene, eng, epi, erd, ere, erg, ern, ert, gdp, ged, gee, gen, ger, get, gid, gie, gin, git, gnp, gpd, gtd, gte, ide, idp, ign, ind, ing, inn, int, ipr, ire, itd, ned, nee, neg, nei, nep, net, nid, nie, nig, nip, nit, nne, pdn, ped, pee, peg, pen, per, pet, pid, pie, pig, pin, pir, pit, pre, prn, pte, ptg, red, ree, reg, rei, rep, rid, rie, rig, rin, rip, rit, rnd, rpt, rte, rti, tdr, ted, tee, teg, ten, ter, tgn, tid, tie, tig, tin, tip, tng, tpd, tpi, tri, trp
Definitions for Pretending
[1] to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
[2] to appear falsely, as to deceive; feign: to pretend to go to sleep.
[3] to make believe: The children pretended to be cowboys.
[4] to presume; venture: I can't pretend to say what went wrong.
[5] to allege or profess, especially insincerely or falsely: He pretended to have no knowledge of her whereabouts.
[6] to make believe.
[7] to lay claim to (usually followed by to ): She pretended to the throne.
[8] to make pretensions (usually followed by to ): He pretends to great knowledge.
[9] Obsolete . to aspire, as a suitor or candidate (followed by to ).
[10] Informal . make-believe; simulated; counterfeit: pretend diamonds.
[11] (when tr, usually takes a clause as object or an infinitive) to claim or allege (something untrue)
[12] (tr; may take a clause as object or an infinitive) to make believe, as in a play you pretend to be Ophelia
[13] (intr foll by to ) to present a claim, esp a dubious one to pretend to the throne
[14] (intr foll by to ) obsolete to aspire as a candidate or suitor (for)
[15] fanciful; make-believe; simulated a pretend gun
Words related to Pretending
pretendfool, feign, purport, assume, impersonate, bluff, profess, imitate, suppose, claim, cheat, fish, whitewash, dupe, beguile, allege, counterfeit, fudge, sham, masquerade
Words nearby Pretending
pretendpretarsal, pretarsus, pretax, preteen, pretence, pretend, pretended, pretender, pretense, pretension, pretensive
Origin of Pretending
1325–75; Middle English pretenden < Latin praetendere to stretch forth, put forward, pretend. See pre-, tend1
Words that may be confused with Pretending
WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, pretendportend, pretend, (see, synonym, study, at, the, current, entry)
Word origin for Pretending
C14: from Latin praetendere to stretch forth, feign, from prae in front + tendere to stretch
Synonyms for Pretending
acting, bluffing, cheating, concealment, counterfeiting, covering, dissembling, dissimulation, masking, pretense, shamming, simulation
