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Is confuse a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word confuse is a Scrabble US word. The word confuse is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is confuse a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word confuse is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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Yes. The word confuse is a Words With Friends word. The word confuse is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

CONFUSE,

6-letter words (3 found)

FUCOSE,OUNCES,UNCOES,

5-letter words (14 found)

CONES,CONFS,CONUS,FOCUS,FONES,ONCES,ONCUS,OUENS,OUNCE,SCONE,SONCE,SOUCE,UNCES,UNCOS,

4-letter words (32 found)

CENS,CONE,CONF,CONS,COSE,CUES,ECOS,ECUS,ENUF,EONS,FENS,FEUS,FOEN,FOES,FONE,FONS,FOUS,FUNS,FUSC,FUSE,NEFS,NOES,NOSE,NOUS,ONCE,ONES,ONUS,SECO,SONE,UFOS,UNCE,UNCO,

3-letter words (33 found)

CON,COS,CUE,ECO,ECU,EFS,ENS,EON,FEN,FES,FEU,FOE,FON,FOU,FUN,NEF,NOS,NUS,OES,ONE,ONS,OSE,OUS,SEC,SEN,SOC,SON,SOU,SUE,SUN,UFO,UNS,USE,

2-letter words (16 found)

EF,EN,ES,FE,FU,NE,NO,NU,OE,OF,ON,OS,OU,SO,UN,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 100 words from confuse according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of confuse

confuse

Etymology

Back formation from Middle English confused (“frustrated, ruined”), from Anglo-Norman confus, from Latin confusus, past participle of confundō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kənˈfjuːz/
  • Rhymes: -uːz

Verb

confuse (third-person singular simple present confuses, present participle confusing, simple past and past participle confused)

  1. (transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
  2. (transitive) To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).
  3. (transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.
  4. (transitive, dated) To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
  6. (intransitive) To be confused.

Synonyms

  • flummox
  • mistake
  • See also Thesaurus:confuse

Related terms

  • confused
  • confusing
  • confusion

Translations

See also

  • discombobulate

References

  • “confuse”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “confuse”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ̃.fyz/

Adjective

confuse

  1. feminine singular of confus

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /konˈfu.ze/
  • Rhymes: -uze
  • Hyphenation: con‧fù‧se

Etymology 1

Participle

confuse f pl

  1. feminine plural of confuso

Adjective

confuse f pl

  1. feminine plural of confuso

Etymology 2

Verb

confuse

  1. third-person singular past historic of confondere

Latin

Participle

cōnfūse

  1. vocative masculine singular of cōnfūsus

References

  • “confuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “confuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • confuse in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • confuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Source: wiktionary.org