befuddlement

Questions about befuddlement

What does befuddlement mean?

befuddlement means "confusion resulting from failure to understand".

How many syllables are in befuddlement?

befuddlement has 4 syllables and divides as be-fudd-le-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 befuddlement?

Close synonyms include bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement, mystification, bafflement. 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 befuddlement a common word?

befuddlement 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.