doppelganger.

a person who closely resembles another, or a mysterious double of a living person

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Words that belong together

• meet a doppelganger
• uncanny doppelganger
• someone's doppelganger

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Her doppelganger stepped off the train wearing the same coat.

The actor met a doppelganger at the market.

In the photograph, his doppelganger stood where he remembered standing alone.

Usage notes

Primary curation section: Horror. The everyday sense is a look-alike; supernatural and sinister qualities belong to particular stories, not every use. Plural: doppelgangers. Alternative spelling: doppelgänger.