pseudonym

false or assumed name

Roots

onym: name
pseudo-: false or fake

Other words with the onym root

anonymous: without a known name
antonym: word with an opposite meaning
eponym: person or thing for whom something is named
homonym: word with the same sound or spelling as another
synonym: word with the same or nearly the same meaning as another
synonymous: having the same or closely associated meaning

Pseudonym is false-name: a mask made of letters.

The novelist used a pseudonym so readers would judge the book, not the biography.

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