dead ringer

1. 1.

   a person who is almost identical to another

   Synonymsringerclone

   Broaderdouble

   colloquialism

Questions about dead ringer

What does dead ringer mean?

dead ringer means "a person who is almost identical to another".

What is another word for dead ringer?

Close synonyms include ringer, clone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dead ringer a common word?

dead ringer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.