befuddle

Other forms of befuddle

past tense

befuddled·

present participle

befuddling·

third person

befuddles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about befuddle

What does befuddle mean?

befuddle means "be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in befuddle?

befuddle has 3 syllables: be-fud-dle. The stress falls on "fud". In IPA it is /bɪˈfʌdəl/.

What is another word for befuddle?

Close synonyms include confuse, throw, fox, fuddle, bedevil. 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 befuddle a common word?

befuddle 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.