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dubios

German, adjective/duˈbi̯oːs/

dubios is spelled D-U-B-I-O-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 82,595th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dubios is a German adjective meaning “dubious, suspicious, questionable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “fragwürdig, unter anderem Verdacht auf Illegalität”.

What does dubios mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    dubious, suspicious, questionable

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. fragwürdig, unter anderem Verdacht auf Illegalität

adjective: 1. zum Misstrauen Anlass gebend

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of dubios

  • dubioser masculine nominative singular
  • am dubiosesten superlative
  • dubiose feminine nominative singular
  • dubioses neuter nominative singular
  • dubiosen genitive masculine singular
  • dubiosem dative masculine singular
  • der dubiose definite includes-article masculine
  • die dubiose definite feminine includes-article
  • das dubiose definite includes-article neuter
  • die dubiosen definite includes-article nominative
  • des dubiosen definite genitive includes-article
  • der dubiosen definite feminine genitive
  • dem dubiosen dative definite includes-article
  • dubiös variant
  • dubios variant
  • dubiöser comparative
  • am dubiösesten superlative
  • dubiöse positive nominative strong

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce dubios?

  • /duˈbi̯oːs/
  • [duˈbi̯oːs]
  • [duˈbi̯øːs]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to dubios

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is dubios in German?

dubios appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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