bafflement

Questions about bafflement

What does bafflement mean?

bafflement means "confusion resulting from failure to understand".

How many syllables are in bafflement?

bafflement has 3 syllables and divides as baf-fle-ment under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bafflement?

Close synonyms include bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement, befuddlement, mystification. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bafflement a common word?

bafflement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.