Doubtful

What it means

1. (noun) A doubtful person or thing.
2. (adjective) Subject to, or causing doubt.
3. (adjective) Experiencing or showing doubt, sceptical.
4. (adjective) Undecided or of uncertain outcome.
5. (adjective) Fearsome, dreadful.
6. (adjective) Improbable or unlikely.
7. (adjective) Suspicious, or of dubious character.
8. (adjective) Unclear or unreliable.

Letter analysis

• Doubtful contains 8 letters: 3 vowel(s) and 5 consonant(s).
• It uses 7 unique letters.
• Estimated syllable count: 2.
• Scrabble-style letter score: 14.

Sub-words

• doubt
• flout
• blot
• bold
• bolt
• bout
• dolt
• flub
• fold
• foul
• loft
• loud
• lout
• tofu
• told
• bot
• bud
• but
• dot
• dub
• duo
• flu
• fob
• lob
• lot
• oft
• old
• out
• tub

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Words starting with DOU

• double
• doubled
• doubles
• doublet
• doublets
• doubling
• doubloon
• doubloons
• doubly
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• doubted
• doubter
• doubters
• doubtfully
• doubting
• doubtless
• doubtlessly
• doubts

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Words ending with FUL

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• armsful
• artful
• awful
• baleful
• baneful
• bashful
• beautiful
• bellyful
• blissful
• boastful
• bountiful
• brimful
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• careful
• cheerful
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