Definitions for confuse

confuse con·fuse

Spelling: [kuh n-fyooz]
IPA: /kənˈfyuz/

Confuse is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in confuse (cefnosu).

Definitions for confuse

verb (used with object)

  1. to perplex or bewilder:
  2. to make unclear or indistinct:
  3. to fail to distinguish between; associate by mistake; confound:
  4. to disconcert or abash:
  5. to combine without order; jumble; disorder:
  6. Archaic. to bring to ruin or naught.

Origin of confuse

back formation from confused (since early 19th century), Middle English confused Anglo-French confus (with -ed -ed2 maintaining participial sense) Latin conf

Examples for confuse

One gets the sense that they are wearing a mask to confuse their readers, and even to evade them.

None can confuse her identity for a moment with that of any other monument of a dead religion.

We do not confuse the parts of speech with the categories of Logic.

Stephen Collins is just an actor, of course, and no one should confuse him with a character he played on TV.

The increase in recognition of autism spectrum disorders in Western countries continues to confound and confuse.

Until then, men shall all wearily grow our facial hair, wear flannel, and confuse the hell out of each other out on the streets.

This, in fact, is one of their big arguments and it works well to confuse base lines.

You confuse me, and how can I transact business if I am confused?

But in his mood of revolt it suited him to confuse the names and the symbols.

If he meant to confuse her, he failed—for she only smiled and said to herself: "They're hazel."

Word Value for confuse
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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