捏ねつ造ぞう

also: でつぞう

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Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 10,000

捏造する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

Deliberate creation of false information, documents, or stories; often used in news, legal, and political contexts.

〈物もの〉を捏ねつ造ぞうするto fabricate (evidence, data, a story, etc.)
彼かれはデータを捏ねつ造ぞうして論ろん文ぶんを発はっ表ぴょうした。
He fabricated data and published a paper.
〈事こと〉が捏ねつ造ぞうだと判はん明めいするfor something to turn out to be a fabrication
その記き事じは捏ねつ造ぞうだと判はん明めいした。
The article turned out to be a fabrication.
証しょう拠こを捏ねつ造ぞうするto fabricate evidence
警けい察さつが証しょう拠こを捏ねつ造ぞうした疑うたがいで捜そう査さされている。
The police are being investigated on suspicion of fabricating evidence.

偽ぎ造ぞうN1
偽造 typically refers to counterfeiting physical items like money or documents, while 捏造 covers fabricating any kind of false information or story.
でっち上あげ
でっち上げ is a more colloquial, emphatic way to say something was made up, whereas 捏造 is the neutral, formal term used in news and legal contexts.
虚きょ偽ぎ
虚偽 describes the abstract quality of being false or untrue, while 捏造 describes the act of deliberately creating that falsehood.
作つくり話ばなしN1
作り話 is a casual term for a made-up tale or excuse, while 捏造 is used more formally for fabricated evidence, data, or news.

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偽ぎ証しょう
捏造 means fabricating facts or evidence in general, whereas 偽証 refers specifically to lying under oath as testimony.
創そう作さくN2
捏造 carries a strong negative sense of fraudulent fabrication (e.g. faking evidence), while 創作 in its fabrication sense is more neutral and can even imply harmless imagination.
改かいざん
捏造 means fabricating information or evidence that never existed, while 改ざん means changing existing real data to something false.
変へん造ぞう
捏造 means fabricating false facts, evidence, or claims out of nothing, while 変造 specifically means physically or textually altering something that genuinely existed.

事じ実じつN3
事実 means an actual, verified fact, the direct opposite of 捏造, which is something invented and false.

捏造Usage77%
- ねつぞう
  Standard kanji spelling; the first character is not a Jōyō kanji, so ねつ造 is also common.
- でつぞう
  Rare voiced reading; learners should use ねつぞう.
ねつ造ぞうUsage22%
Common mixed spelling using hiragana for the non-Jōyō character.
ねつぞうUsage1%
でつぞう

From Middle Chinese-derived elements 捏 (to knead, fabricate) and 造 (to make, create). The reading ねつぞう is the standard Sino-Japanese reading.