- Types Of Speech
- You can use confusion as a noun in a sentence.
- About Confusion
- A 3 syllables noun and 9 letters with the letters c, f, i, n, o, s, and u, 5 consonants, 4 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letter u. Confusion starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters c, co, con, conf, confu, and the ending characters are n, on, ion, sion, usion, ..
- Definition
- A mistake that results from taking one thing to be another; "he changed his name in order to avoid confusion with the notorious outlaw"
- Origin/Roots
- Old French
- Compound Words
- A compound word, confusion has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are con, and fusion.
- Pig Latin
- Confusion in Pig Latin is said as "onfusioncay or onfusioncway".
- Unigram
- c | o | n | f | u | s | i | o | n
- Bigram
- co | on | nf | fu | us | si | io | on
- Trigram
- con | onf | nfu | fus | usi | sio | ion
- Quadrigram
- conf | onfu | nfus | fusi | usio | sion
- Word Gram
- Noun Examples
- a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another;
"he changed his name in order to avoid confusion with the notorious outlaw" - an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended;
"the confusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel" - a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior;
"a confusion of impressions" - a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused
- disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably;
"the army retreated in confusion"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abashment | feeling embarrassed due to modesty |
| Abattoir | a building where animals are butchered |
| About Face | |
| Abstruseness | the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand |
| Admixture | the act of mixing together "paste made by a mix of flour and water" "the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio" |
| Ado | a rapid bustling commotion |
| Affray | a noisy fight |
| Agitation | the act of agitating something causing it to move around (usually vigorously) |
| Aloofness | a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner |
| Amaze | be a mystery or bewildering to "This beats me!" "Got me--I don''t know the answer!" "a vexing problem" "This question really stuck me" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Confusion
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Confusion | a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another "he changed his name in order to avoid confusion with the notorious outlaw" |
View English words with the unique letters used in confusion. Words With The Letters Cfinosu
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Confound | mistake one thing for another "you are confusing me with the other candidate" "I mistook her for the secretary" |
| Confuse | mistake one thing for another "you are confusing me with the other candidate" "I mistook her for the secretary" |
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Error | a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention "he made a bad mistake" "she was quick to point out my errors" "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" |
| Fault | a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention "he made a bad mistake" "she was quick to point out my errors" "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" |
| Mistake | a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention "he made a bad mistake" "she was quick to point out my errors" "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" |
Confusion Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With C
- Ends With N
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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