perplex

Other forms of perplex

past tense

perplexed·

present participle

perplexing·

third person

perplexes·

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 perplex

What does perplex mean?

perplex means "be a mystery or bewildering to". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in perplex?

perplex has 2 syllables: per-plex. The stress falls on "plex". In IPA it is /pɚˈplɛks/.

What is another word for perplex?

Close synonyms include vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify. 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 perplex a common word?

perplex 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.

What rhymes with perplex?

4 words rhyme with perplex. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.