discombobulate

Other forms of discombobulate

past tense

discombobulated·

present participle

discombobulating·

third person

discombobulates·

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 discombobulate

What does discombobulate mean?

discombobulate means "cause to be confused emotionally". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in discombobulate?

discombobulate has 5 syllables: dis-com-bo-bu-late. The stress falls on "bo". In IPA it is /ˌdɪskəmˈbɔbjuleɪt/.

What is another word for discombobulate?

Close synonyms include bewilder, bemuse, throw, confuse, throw. 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 discombobulate a common word?

discombobulate 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.