- Types Of Speech
- You can use confound as a verb in a sentence.
- About Confound
- A 2 syllables verb and 8 letters with the letters c, d, f, n, o, and u, 5 consonants, 3 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letters fo. Confound starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters c, co, con, conf, confo, and the ending characters are d, nd, und, ound, found, ..
- Definition
- Mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
- Origin/Roots
- Anglo Norman
- Compound Words
- A compound word, confound has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are con, and found.
- School Grade
- Confound is set as a sat word that starts with c, ends with d, 2 syllables, 3 vowels and 8 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Confound in Pig Latin is said as "onfoundcay or onfoundcway".
- Unigram
- c | o | n | f | o | u | n | d
- Bigram
- co | on | nf | fo | ou | un | nd
- Trigram
- con | onf | nfo | fou | oun | und
- Quadrigram
- conf | onfo | nfou | foun | ound
- Word Gram
- Verb Examples
- mistake one thing for another;
"you are confusing me with the other candidate";
"I mistook her for the secretary" - be confusing or perplexing to;
cause to be unable to think clearly;
"These questions confuse even the experts";
"This question completely threw me";
"This question befuddled even the teacher"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abash | cause to be embarrassed cause to feel self-conscious |
| Abuse | cruel or inhumane treatment |
| Accurse | |
| Addle | become rotten "addled eggs" |
| Addle The Wits | |
| 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 |
| Adulterate | corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones "adulterate liquor" |
| Affectation | a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display |
| Affectedness | a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display |
View all cognitive synonyms for Confound
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Confound | mistake one thing for another "you are confusing me with the other candidate" "I mistook her for the secretary" |
View English words with the unique letters used in confound. Words With The Letters Cdfnou
| Word | 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" |
| Mix Up |
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Misidentify | identify incorrectly "Don''t mistake her for her twin sister" |
| 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" |
Confound Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With C
- Ends With D
- Spelled With / Contains Letters

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