Ananias
7 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
A habitual or compulsive liar, a term derived from the New Testament figure who was struck dead for deceiving the apostles.
“His colleagues regarded him as an ananias whose stories were never to be trusted.”
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an·a·ni·as
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Contains five vowels A, A, I, A with only two consonants N and N, one of the most vowel-dense seven-letter words
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Scrabble
Scores 7 points, extremely vowel-heavy but a useful play for clearing multiple A tiles at once
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