spurious
B2CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
False or fake, though appearing genuine.
The manuscript was exposed as a spurious forgery of the poet's hand.
Business adjective
Appearing genuine but arising from coincidence or a hidden factor rather than a real relationship.
The link between ad spend and sales was spurious, since both simply rose every December.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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