Confute 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 143 anagrams from letters in confute (cefnotu).
1520-30; Latin confūtāre to abash, silence, refute, equivalent to con- con- + -fūtāre; cf. refute
To refute and to confute are to answer so as to admit of no reply.
It was consequently not difficult for his Jewish opponent to confute his arguments.
It was Jane who lied about you, and your return with me will confute her slanders.
He tells us that his object in studying philosophy was to confute the philosophers.
Accordingly, they confute one another in their own books to purpose, and are not ashamed.
This was exactly the case of Secularism which he undertook to confute.
They are also in presence of antagonists, ready to entrap and confute them.
Moreover, experience tends to confute the system of Dr. Gall.
We can confute him, not only by pointing to the books he did not use, but by pointing to those he did.
confute him with a whip, and, the doubt decided, Punish him with a halter.