Baffled

Definitions: Baffled

Baffled

Adjective

1. Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school".

2. Used especially of feelings of defeat and discouragement.

Noun

1. People who are frustrated and perplexed; "the children's faces clearly expressed the frustration of the baffled".

Date "baffled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Baffled

Synonyms: at sea (adj), balked (adj), befuddled (adj), bemused (adj), bewildered (adj), confounded (adj), confused (adj), discouraged (adj), frustrated (adj), lost (adj), mazed (adj), mixed-up (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Baffled

English words defined with "baffled": stuck ♦ unrelaxed. (references)

Specialty definitions using "baffled": baffled outlet pipe drop ♦ Ferry ♦ HOLMES, Hotel. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Police are baffled. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Why, are they baffled down at the clinic? (Just Shoot Me!; writing credit: David Renwick)
Movie/TV Titles	Baffled! (1972) Baffled by Banjos (1924) The Baffled Burglar (1907) Sherlock Holmes Baffled (1900)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Baffled Christian's Handbook (reference) Coaching Boys' Lacrosse: A Baffled Parent's Guide (reference) Great Baseball Drills: A Baffled Parent's Guide (reference) Platypus: The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World (reference) Teaching Kids Golf: A Baffled Parent's Guide (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Baffled (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Baffled Ghosts (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
After Three Days	Carroll, Lewis	The aged brows were bent, Bent to a frown, half thought, and half annoy, That all their stores of subtlest argument Were baffled by a boy.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	He moaned to himself like some baffled prowling beast.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Baffled" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 54.94% of the time. "Baffled" is used about 253 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	54.94%	139	26,913
Lexical Verb (past tense)	21.34%	54	46,184
Adjective (general or positive)	19.37%	49	48,677
Noun (proper)	4.35%	11	106,044
Total	100.00%	253	N/A

Expressions using "baffled": baffled look ♦ baffled outlet pipe drop ♦ be baffled. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "baffled": baffled-looking.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "baffled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏مرتبك (agitated, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, discomfited, disconcerted, disquieted, disturbed, embarrassed, lummox, perplexed, perturbed, puzzled, uneasy, upset). (various references)

Chinese		难�' (Baffling, floored). (various references)

Danish		næseventil (baffled valve), næsestempel (baffled piston), fald i lukket roer med bremsemur (baffled outlet pipe drop). (various references)

Dutch		zuiger met keerplaat (baffled piston), klep met keerschot (baffled valve), duiker met verticale energievernietiger aan de uitstroomzijde (baffled outlet pipe drop). (various references)

Finnish		nolo (discomfited, embarrassed). (various references)

French		soupape avec déflecteur (baffled valve), réservoir � chicanes (baffled holding tank), piston � déflecteur (baffled piston), chute en conduite avec paroi brise-charge � la sortie (baffled outlet pipe drop). (various references)

German		verwirrte (bemused, bewildered, deranged, disarranged, disconcerted, distracted, dizzyingly, embarrassed, flustered, muddled, perplexed). (various references)

Greek		έμβολο με διαμόρφωση απόκλισης (baffled piston), βαλβίδα με πτερύγιο (baffled valve), πελαγοδρομώ (be baffled, be stumped, sail the high seas), αναβαθμός τύπου κλειστού αγωγού μετ'ασπίδος διασπάσεως φορτίου εις την έξοδον (baffled outlet pipe drop). (various references)

Hungarian		megzavarodott (befuddled, distraught, mixed, perplexed, unbalanced), meghiúsult (blighted, disconcerted, frustrate, shattered, withered), összezavart (foxed, mixed, perplexing). (various references)

Italian		sconcertato (abashed, bewildered, confounded). (various references)

Pig Latin		affledbay.(various references)

Portuguese		confundido (abashed, jumbled, mistaken, spellbound). (various references)

Russian		сбивать с толку (baffle, bedevil, bowl out, disorientate, embrangle, obfuscate). (various references)

Spanish		confundido (bemused, confounded, confused, foxed). (various references)

Swedish		snopen (surprised), förvirrad (bemused, besotted, confused, dazed, disconcerted, distracted, dizzy, mixed up, muddle-headed, perplexed, perturbed, upset, woolly minded, woozy). (various references)

Turkish		şaşkına dönmüş (bewildered, confused, flabbergasted, shocked), şaşırmış (all at sea, all out, amazed, at a loss, bewildered, blank, confounded, confused, disoriented, distracted, lost, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzled, surprised, taken aback, twisted, wondering), şaşırıp kalmış. (various references)

Ukranian		спантеличений (bemused, blank, distracted, dizzy, perplexed, raddled), розгублений (mixed up, will), здивований (amazed, surprised, wonder struck, wonder-stricken). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Baffled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bafel, baffe, baffeed, baffel, baffeled, beffle, buffled, yaffle. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "baffled" (pronounced ba"fuld)
5	-a" f u l d	scaffold.
4	-f u l d	muffled, reshuffled, rifled, ruffled, scuffled, shuffled, stifled, unruffled, waffled.
3	-u l d	addled, ambled, angled, annulled, assembled, babbled, backpedaled, barreled, battled, bedeviled, bedraggled, befuddled, belittled, bespectacled, bevelled, bicycled, boggled, bottled, bridled, bristled, bubbled, buckled, bundled, bungled, cabled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chortled, chronicled, chuckled, circled, cobbled, coddled, commingled, corbelled, counseled, coupled, crackled, credentialed, crippled, crumbled, crumpled, cuddled, cycled, dabbled, dangled, dazzled, dialed, dibbled, dimpled, disabled, disassembled, disgruntled, disheveled, dismantled, doubled, dribbled, dueled, dwindled, embattled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enabled, enameled, encircled, enfeebled, entangled, entitled, equaled, fabled, fiddled, fizzled, flanneled, fondled, frazzled, freckled, fueled, fuelled, fumbled, funneled, gambled, garbled, giggled, gobbled, grappled, grizzled, grumbled, haggled, handled, hassled, heckled, Herald, hobbled, huddled, humbled, hustled, idled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, intermingled, jangled, jostled, juggled, jumbled, kindled, knuckled, labeled, labelled, ladled, leveled, levelled, libeled, mangled, manhandled, marbled, marshaled, marshalled, marveled, mingled, mishandled, mislabeled, modeled, mottled, muddled, mumbled, muscled, muzzled, needled, nestled, nettled, newfangled, nibbled, ogled, paddled, paneled, parceled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, penciled, peopled, pickled, principled, pummeled, puzzled, quadrupled, quarreled, quintupled, rambled, rankled, rattled, raveled, reassembled, recycled, redoubled, refueled, rekindled, remodeled, resembled, resettled, reveled, riddled, rippled, rivaled, rumbled, rumpled, saddled, sampled, scrambled, scribbled, scuttled, settled, shackled, shoveled, shriveled, shuttled, signaled, signalled, singled, sizzled, smuggled, snarled, spangled, sparkled, speckled, spiraled, sprinkled, squabbled, squirreled, stapled, startled, stenciled, straddled, straggled, strangled, struggled, stumbled, subtitled, swindled, tabled, tackled, tangled, tasseled, tattled, throttled, tickled, tinkled, titled, toggled, toppled, totaled, totalled, trampled, traveled, travelled, trebled, trembled, trickled, tripled, troubled, trundled, tumbled, tussled, unbridled, unlabeled, unprincipled, unraveled, unrivaled, unsettled, unshackled, untrammeled, untroubled, wangled, whistled, whittled, widdled, wobbled, wrangled, wrestled, wrinkled.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-f-f-l"
	-1 letter: baffed, baffle, fabled.
	-2 letters: baled, blade, fable.
	-3 letters: abed, able, alef, bade, baff, bald, bale, bead, blae, bled, daff, dale, deaf, deal, delf, fade, feal, flab, flea, fled, lade, lead, leaf.
	-4 letters: aff, alb, ale, bad, bal, bed, bel, dab, dal, deb, del, eff, eld, elf, fad, fed, lab, lad, lea, led.
	-5 letters: ab, ad, ae, al, ba, be, de, ed, ef, el, fa, la.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-f-f-l"
	+2 letters: buffaloed.
	+3 letters: affordable, bufflehead.
	+4 letters: buffleheads.
	+5 letters: shuffleboard, unaffordable.
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