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How to spell fraudulent

fraudulent

Not fraudulant.

The trap

-ant or -ent

The word fraudulent ends -ent, and the misspelling fraudulant writes the ending as -ant. The unstressed ending sounds the same either way, and fraudulence keeps the same E.

-ant and -ent are the same sound when the syllable is unstressed. Which one a word takes is usually learned with the word, and its -ance or -ence relative keeps the same vowel (confident, confidence).

What it means

adjective. Obtained, done, or made by fraud.

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