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Definition: Befuddled |
BefuddledAdjective1. Stupefied by alcoholic drink; "the wino's poor befuddled mind"; "a mind befogged with drink". 2. 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". 3. Confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "befuddled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references) |
Synonyms: BefuddledSynonyms: addled (adj), at sea (adj), baffled (adj), befogged (adj), bemused (adj), bewildered (adj), confounded (adj), confused (adj), lost (adj), mazed (adj), mixed-up (adj), muddled (adj), muzzy (adj), woolly (adj), woolly-headed (adj), wooly (adj), wooly-minded (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Befuddled |
| English words defined with "befuddled": bedevil, befogged, befuddle ♦ confound, confuse ♦ discombobulate ♦ fox, fuddle ♦ throw. (references) |
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| "Befuddled" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 63.16% of the time. "Befuddled" is used about 19 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 63.16% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 21.05% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 15.79% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "befuddled": beer-befuddled. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
befuddled | 9 |
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| Language | Translations for "befuddled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 犯渾 (confused; mixed up; befuddled). (various references) | |
Czech | popletený (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, confused), podroušený (fuddled). (various references) | |
German | berauschte (fuddled, got drunk, inebriated). (various references) | |
Hungarian | borgőzös állapotú. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "い痴れる (to be befuddled). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | よいしれる (to be befuddled). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | efuddledbay.(various references) | |
Romanian | beat (boozy, cock eyed, drunk, drunken, elevated, groggy, in drink, in one's cups, in wine, inebriate, intoxicated, muzzy, on the fuddle, pickled, pie-eyed, queer, screwed, sottish, squiffed, tight, tipsy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zbunjen (abashed, ablush, aghast, bewildered, confounded, confused, distraught, embarrassed, loss: at a loss, nonplussed, puzzled, quizzical). (various references) | |
Spanish | perplejo (at a loss, bemused, bewildered, bushed, confounded, leak, perplexed, puzzled), atontado (besotted, dopey, dopy, stunned, stupid). (various references) | |
Thai | สับสน (bamboozled, buffaloed, flummox, jumble up, lost). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | одурманюваний. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Befuddled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Beaudidlez, beffudled, befunddle, befundle, bfuddled, bufuddled. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "befuddled" (pronounced bufu"duld) |
| 5 | -u" d u l d | cuddled, huddled, muddled. |
| 4 | -d u l d | addled, backpedaled, bridled, bundled, coddled, kindled, ladled, dwindled, fiddled, fondled, handled, idled, manhandled, mishandled, modeled, needled, paddled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, rekindled, remodeled, riddled, saddled, straddled, swindled, trundled, unbridled, widdled. |
| 3 | -u l d | ambled, angled, annulled, assembled, babbled, baffled, barreled, battled, bedeviled, bedraggled, belittled, bespectacled, bevelled, bicycled, boggled, bottled, bristled, bubbled, buckled, bungled, cabled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chortled, chronicled, chuckled, circled, cobbled, commingled, corbelled, counseled, coupled, crackled, credentialed, crippled, crumbled, crumpled, cycled, dabbled, dangled, dazzled, dialed, dibbled, dimpled, disabled, disassembled, jangled, jostled, juggled, jumbled, knuckled, labeled, labelled, leveled, levelled, libeled, disgruntled, disheveled, dismantled, doubled, dribbled, dueled, embattled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enabled, enameled, encircled, enfeebled, entangled, entitled, equaled, fabled, fizzled, flanneled, frazzled, freckled, fueled, fuelled, fumbled, funneled, gambled, garbled, giggled, gobbled, grappled, grizzled, grumbled, haggled, hassled, heckled, Herald, hobbled, humbled, hustled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, intermingled, mangled, marbled, marshaled, marshalled, marveled, mingled, mislabeled, mottled, muffled, mumbled, muscled, muzzled, nestled, nettled, newfangled, nibbled, ogled, paneled, parceled, penciled, peopled, pickled, principled, pummeled, puzzled, quadrupled, quarreled, quintupled, rambled, rankled, rattled, raveled, reassembled, recycled, redoubled, refueled, resembled, resettled, reshuffled, reveled, rifled, rippled, rivaled, ruffled, rumbled, rumpled, sampled, scaffold, scrambled, scribbled, scuffled, scuttled, settled, shackled, shoveled, shriveled, shuffled, shuttled, signaled, signalled, singled, sizzled, smuggled, snarled, spangled, sparkled, speckled, spiraled, sprinkled, squabbled, squirreled, stapled, startled, stenciled, stifled, straggled, strangled, struggled, stumbled, subtitled, tabled, tackled, tangled, tasseled, tattled, throttled, tickled, tinkled, titled, toggled, toppled, totaled, totalled, trampled, traveled, travelled, trebled, trembled, trickled, tripled, troubled, tumbled, tussled, unlabeled, unprincipled, unraveled, unrivaled, unruffled, unsettled, unshackled, untrammeled, untroubled, waffled, wangled, whistled, whittled, wobbled, wrangled, wrestled, wrinkled. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-d-d-e-e-f-l-u" | |
-1 letter: befuddle. | |
-2 letters: deluded, fuddled. | |
-3 letters: bedded, budded, buddle, delude, dueled, eluded, feuded, fuddle, fueled. | |
-4 letters: bedel, bleed, blued, deled, duded, elude, feued, flued, lubed. | |
-5 letters: bedu, beef, bled, blue, deed, dele, delf, dude, duel, feed, feel, feud, fled, flee, flub, flue, fuel, leud, lube, lude. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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