Zweifel
German, noun
Zweifel is spelled Z-W-E-I-F-E-L (7 letters) and appears 46 times per million words in written German, the 1,852nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zweifel is a German masculine noun meaning “doubt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, zweifel is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “inneres Schwanken; Unsicherheit in Bezug auf Vertrauen, Taten, Entscheidungen, Glauben oder Behauptungen…”.
What does Zweifel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedoubt
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. inneres Schwanken; Unsicherheit in Bezug auf Vertrauen, Taten, Entscheidungen, Glauben oder Behauptungen beziehungsweise Vermutung von Tatsachen
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 Zweifel
- Zweifels genitive
- Zweifeln dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Zweifel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Zweifel in German?
Zweifel appears 46 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).