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factcheck

factcheck is the alternative form of fact check.

factcheck is the alternative form of fact-check.

Meaning of fact check

Noun

fact check (plural fact checks)

  1. A verification of the factuality of specific information.

Meaning of fact-check

Verb

fact-check (third-person singular simple present fact-checks, present participle fact-checking, simple past and past participle fact-checked)

  1. (transitive) To verify the factuality of specific information.
    • There are the tiniest statements, such as claiming that Dartmouth is technically the only railway station in Britain never to have had a railway line, that need to be fact-checked (and in this case debunked - at least Hull Corporation Pier was similar).2020 May 6, Tim Dunn, “The Architecture The Railways Built”, in Rail, page 76

Forms of factcheck

Noun
pluralfactchecks
Verb
third-person singular presentfactchecks
present participlefactchecking
past participlefactchecked
pastfactchecked

Questions about factcheck

What is factcheck the alternative form of?
Factcheck is the alternative form of fact check.

Words near factcheck in the dictionary

  1. fact-value distinction
  2. facta
  3. factable
  4. factbook
  5. factbooks
  6. factcheck
  7. factchecked
  8. factchecker
  9. factcheckers
  10. factchecking
  11. factchecks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: factcheck (page history and authors); fact check (page history and authors); fact-check (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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