doubt: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 8 letter points · starts with D · ends with T
Meaning of doubt
verb
- ambitransitive
To consider questionable or unlikely; to hesitate to believe; to lack confidence in; to question.
Example: He doubted that was really what you meant.
- transitive
To harbour suspicion about; suspect.
- archaic, transitive
To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend.
- obsolete, transitive
To fill with fear; to affright.
Listed forms: doubts, doubting, doubted.
Source: Wiktionary — doubt.
noun
- countable, uncountable
Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.
Example: There was some doubt as to who the child's real father was.
- countable
A point of uncertainty, especially a yes/no or a multiple-choice question
Example: Ma'am, I have a doubt about today's lecture
- countable
a question (that one has)
Listed forms: doubts, dout.
Source: Wiktionary — doubt.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for doubt.
noun
the state of being unsure of something
noun
uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is doubt in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of doubt
D(2) + O(1) + U(1) + B(3) + T(1) = 8 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of doubt
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from doubt
19 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in doubt. Showing up to 24, longest first.