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Definition: Muddle |
MuddleNoun1. A confused multitude of things. 2. Informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage". Verb1. Make into a puddle; "puddled mire". 2. Mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "muddle" was first used: 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Muddle Original name of MDL. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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Synonyms: MuddleSynonyms: clutter (n), fix (n), hole (n), jam (n), jumble (n), kettle of fish (n), mare's nest (n), mess (n), pickle (n), smother (n), welter (n), addle (v), puddle (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absurdity | Blunder, muddle, bull; Irishism, Hibernicism; slipslop; anticlimax, bathos; sophism. |
Arrangement | Verb: derange; disarrange, misarrange; displace, misplace; mislay, discompose, disorder; deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize; embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble; shuffle, randomize; huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot; bring into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder; muss; break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon. |
Disorder | Noun: disorder; derangement; irregularity; anomaly; (unconformity); anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness; Adjective: disunion; discord. confusion; confusedness; Adjective: mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch, hotch-pot; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley; mere mixture; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles. |
Imbecility Folly | Weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed, chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded; beef headed, fat witted, fat-headed. |
Inattention | Call off the attention, draw off the attention, call away the attention, divert the attention, distract the mind; put out of one's head; disconcert, discompose; put out, confuse, perplex, bewilder, moider, fluster, muddle, dazzle; throw a sop to Cerberus. |
Prodigality | Verb: be prodigal; Adjective: squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in; pay through the nose; (dear); spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe. |
Uncertainty | Not know what to make of; (unintelligibility), not know which way to turn, not know whether one stands on one s head or one's heels; float in a sea of doubt,hesitate, flounder; lose oneself, lose one's head; muddle one's brains. |
Waste | Cast away, fool away, muddle away, throw away, fling away, fritter away; burn the candle at both ends, waste; squander. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Muddle |
| English words defined with "muddle": Bemuddle, besot ♦ fix ♦ hole ♦ jam ♦ kettle of fish ♦ mess, Muddling ♦ pickle ♦ stupefy, stupify. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "muddle": Devil to Pay and no Pitch Hot ♦ Kittle of Fish. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | An Artist's Muddle (1920) Luke's Movie Muddle (1916) A Muddle in Horse Thieves (1913) | |
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| "Muddle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.99% of the time. "Muddle" is used about 238 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 78.99% | 188 | 22,417 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 13.87% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.46% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.68% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 238 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "muddle": get in a muddle ♦ get into a muddle ♦ in a muddle ♦ muddle along ♦ muddle away ♦ muddle on ♦ muddle one's brains ♦ muddle through ♦ muddle up. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "muddle": muddle-head, Muddle-headed, muddle-headedness. | |
Ending with "muddle": thick-muddle. | |
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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 |
muddle puddle | 18 |
muddle | 8 |
mud muddle | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "muddle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ngatërroj (bedevil, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, disorient, disorientate, disturb, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, entangle, entrap, flummox, fuddle, garble, hash, immerse, implicate, intricate, involve, jerk off, jumble, lug in, make a hash of cutting, make a mess of, mess about, mistake, mix up, monkey, muddy, put out, Ravel, snarl, tamper, tie up), ngatërresë (complication, confusion, embroilment, entanglement, hindrance, huddle, imbroglio, intricacy, mess, mix, moil, Mull, network, nodus, nonsense, nuisance, obstruction, quarrel, Ravel, razzle, razzle-dazzle, toss), bëj lëmsh (ball, mix up, welter), çrregullim (bewilderment, clutter, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, dislocation, disorder, disorganization, distemper, disturbance, excess, foul up, hugger mugger, mess, misrule, mix, muss, turmoil, upset). (various references) | |
Arabic | فوضى (anarchy, chaos, clatter, clutter, commotion, confusion, disarray, disorder, hugger mugger, jumble, lawlessness, litter, mess, misrule, mix up, muss, rumpus, shambles, topsy turvy, turmoil, welter), كدر (annoy, annoyance, cloudiness, distress, disturb, embitter, make turbid, muddiness, muddy, offend, roil, ruffle, spoil, trouble, turbid, turbidity, unsettle), لوث بالوحل (bemire, muddy), تشوش ذهني, عكر (derange, disturb, muddy, roil, trouble, turbid, turbidity), خفق (baulk, beat, beating, bust, collapse, come, come to grief, dilute, fall, fizzle out, flap, flummox, flunk, go by the board, go wrong, goof, misfire, miss, pit-a-pat, pound, pulsate, pulsation, throb, whip), جعله موحل, إختلاط (admixture, chaos, criss cross, promiscuity), شوش (bedevil, befuddle, blanket, confuse, demoralize, derange, disarrange, dislocate, disorganize, disrupt, disturb, dizzy, embroil, fog, fuddle, garble, gum up, hamper, jam, jumble, mire, mix up, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, outface, parasite, perplex, perturb, rattle, ravel, scramble, smudge, unhinge, unsettle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смущение (abashment, alarm, bewilderment, confusion, discomposure, disorder, disturbance, embarrassment, intimidation, perplexity, perturbation, ruffle, uneasiness, upset), смущавам (become confused, confound, confuse, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, disturb, flurry, gravel, incommode, mystify, obfuscate, perplex, perturb, put off, put out, rattle, ruffle, throw out, unbalance, violate, wake, wilder), разкалвам (puddle), развалям (alloy, bitch, blunder, break up, change, contaminate, corrupt, deprave, disaffirm, injure, louse up, mangle, mess about, mess around, murder, mutilate, nip, perish, queer, spoil, uglify, undo, vitiate), размътвам (addle, mud, muddy, obfuscate, puddle, stir), разбърквам (addle, agitate, clutter, derange, disarrange, disorder, jumble, litter, mess up, mix, mix up, puddle, rumple, scramble, tousle, trouble, tumble, unbalance, unfix, unsettle), обърквам (abash, addle, baffle, bedevil, befuddle, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, disjoint, dislocate, distract, embarrass, embroil, flatten, flummox, fluster, foil, fuddle, gravel, jumble, maze, mess about, mess around, mess up, muff, muss, nonplus, obfuscate, overwhelm, perplex, pose, put off, put out, puzzle, sew up, snarl, stonker, throw out, tumble, vex, wilder), обърканост (blankness, complexity, confusion, distraction, fluster, fog, harassment, indigestion, involution, maze, puzzle, puzzlement), оплесквам (besmear, dash, dub, foozle, foul up, hash, louse up, make a mess, make sad work of, mess, muff, screw up, slobber, spatter, splash, sully), неразбория (double dutch, jumble, mess, mix up, muss), бъркотия (bungle, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disturbance, dust, farrago, fuss, hash, havoc, huddle, hugger mugger, hurry-scurry, imbroglio, involution, involvement, jumble, jungle, maze, melee, mess, mess up, mishmash, mix, mix up, muss, patchwork, pell mell, razzle, razzle-dazzle, rout, salmagundi, skein, snafu, tangle, tumble, uproar, upset, welter), безпорядък (disarray, disorder, disorganization, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, litter, misrule, moil, muck). (various references) | |
Chinese | 混乱 (Chaotic, Clamorous, Confusion, Disarray, Disordered, disorganise, disorganised, Disorganize, Disorganized, Disorganizing, mess, Muddled, Muddling, ravel). (various references) | |
Czech | zmotat (Ravel), zmatek (anarchy, bewilderment, chaos, circus, clutter, confusion, disarray, disorder, disturbance, embroilment, fluster, hash, hodge-podge, jumble, maze, mess up, mix up, moil, Mull, nonplus, non-plus, pandemonium, perplexity, perturbation, puzzlement, shambles, stew, tangle, tempest, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turnup, upset, welter), zamíchat co èím, splést (intertwine, mess, mislead). (various references) | |
Farsi | گیجی (Bafflement, Quandary, Razzledazzle, Stun, Stupefaction, Stupor), گیج کردن (Astonish, Befuddle, Bemuse, Bewilder, Confound, Confuse, Daze, Distract, Fox, Fuzz, Knockdown, Perplex, Petrify, Stump, Stun, Stupefy), تیرگی (Blur, Fog, Gloom, Obscurity), خراب کردن (Amortize, Botch, Corrupt, Demolish, Destroy, Deteriorate, Devastate, Dilapidate, Disfigure, Impair, Muck, Ruin, Ruinate, Unbuild, Undo, Unmake, Vitiate, Wrack, Wreck), درهم وبرهم کردن (Disorganize, Snafu, Tangle). (various references) | |
Finnish | sotku (jumble, mess, tangle), sekoittaa (blend, mingle, mistake for, mix, mix blend, mix in, mix up, put in, shuffle, stir, stir up), sekamelska (medley, mess). (various references) | |
French | embrouillage. (various references) | |
German | verwirren (befog, befuddle, bewilder, confound, confuse, dazzle, disarrange, disorient, entangle, fluster, fuddle, jumble, muddle up, mystify, obfuscate, obscure, perplex, perturb, puzzle, Ravel, ruffle, ruffle up, tangle, tangle up, to confuse, to derange, to disarrange, to discombobulate, to disconcert, to dishevel, to disorient, to distract, to embarrass, to fluster, tousle, unsettle). (various references) | |
Greek | συγχέω (becloud, confound, confuse, fuddle, jumble, snafu), συγχύζω (addle, becloud, confound, derange, discompose, disconcert, distract, obfuscate), συγχύζομαι, μπερδεύω (baffle, bemuse, complicate, confound, confuse, enmesh, jumble, kink, mix up), ανακατεύω (admix, blend, churn, mix, pie, ruffle, scramble, shuffle the cards, stir), θολώνω (bedim, cloud, obfuscate, roil, snafu, steam up). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשכר (befuddle, intoxicate), לשבש (cripple, derange, dislocate, disrupt, queer, upset), לערבב (blend, confuse, jumble, mess, mingle, mix, scramble, stir, temper), לבלבל (bedevil, confound, confuse, disarrange, disconcert, disturb, flummox, mix up, perturb), לבחוש (mix, stir), לבזבז (dissipate, spend, spoil, squander, waste), לטמטם (fuddle, stupefy), ערבובי" (clutter, confusion, disorder, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hodgpodge, hotchpotch, jumble, medley, mess, mingle-mangle, mishmash, muss, pastiche, tumble, welter). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zûrzavar (chaos, clutter, confusion, disorder, embroilment, helter-skelter, huddle, hurly burly, jumble, maze, melee, mess, muss, pandemonium, snafu, tumult, turbulence), felfordulás (cataclysm, clutter, combustion, commotion, confusion, convulsions, earthquake, hoo-ha, hoopla, huddle, hurly burly, hurly-burly, hurry-skurry, mess, mix, mix-up, muss, subversion, tangled skein, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, upheaval, upset, upsetting, whoop-de-doo), elfuserál (bungle, foozle, screw up, to bitch, to boss, to botch, to make a mess of sg, to mess up, to muck up, to muddle up, to mull, to muss, to slobber), összezavar (befuddle, disarrange, disarray, disorder, embroil, entangle, mess, mess about, mess up, mix up, obfuscate, perturb, to addle, to baffle, to ball up, to confound, to confuse, to darken, to disarray, to dislocate, to disorder, to elf, to ensnarl, to entangle, to foul up, to involve, to mess up, to mix up, to muddle up, to muss, to obfuscate, to perturb, to play the devil with sg, to play the very devil with sg, to scramble, to snarl, to unsettle). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kekisruhan (chaos, confusion), kacau (disordered, disorderly, entangled), campur aduk. (various references) | |
Italian | scompiglio (chaos, confusion, disarray, hurly burly, mess), guazzabuglio (bungle, gallimaufry, hotchpotch, jumble, mixture), farragine (farrago, jumble), disordine (confusion, disarray, disorder, disorderliness, disturbance, helter-skelter, intemperance, mess, untidiness, upset), confusione (abashment, ado, bedlam, carry on, chaos, clutter, commotion, confusion, disorder, disturbance, embarrassment, fuss, haze, hotchpotch, hubbub, jumble, mess, mix up, noise, pother, puzzledom, shambles, stir), confondere (abash, addle, baffle, beat, become confuse, bemuse, bewilder, bother, confound, confuse, embarrass, foil, garble, get mixed up, jumble, merge, mistake, mix, mix up, mystify, obfuscate, puzzle, stump). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 乱雑 (affray, clutter, confusion, disorder, promiscuity). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ら"ざつ (affray, clutter, confusion, disorder, promiscuity). (various references) | |
Manx | whumm, mestane, fud y cheilley (at variance, chaotic, confused, confusing, confusion, dishevelled, disorder, disordered, embarrassed, flustered, mixed up, muddled, perplexed, tangled, topsy-turvy), corvaal (chaos, confusion, mix up, shambles, turmoil), brockey (bungle, muck, waste, waste as food), brock (botch, bungle, cock-up, fiasco, hash, refuse, remains; badger, slip up, wastage), broagey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uddlemay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trapalhada (foul-up, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, huddle, imbroglio, jumble, medley, mess, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mix, moil, mull, muss, puddle), perturbar o espírito, estragar (blunder, botch, bungle, deface, deteriorate, dilapidate, disconcert, foul up, impair, injure, mar, mess, muck, overset, poison, queer, rub, screw up, spoil), embrulhada (embroilment, gallimaufry, imbroglio, intricacy, involution, moil, mull, puddle), embaralhar (ball, jumble, mess around, mix up, obscure, shuffle), desordem (affray, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, discomposure, donnybrook, fray, huddle, hugger-mugger, hurry-scurry, jumble, litter, mess, misrule, mush, muss, pandemonium, pell-mell, perturbation, riot, rough-and-tumble, rout, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scuffle, stir, topsy-turvy, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, untidiness, uproar, upset), confusão (baffle, bedlam, bother, bungle, clutter, confusion, daze, disarray, discomfiture, discomposure, disturbance, donnybrook, embroilment, entanglement, fog, foul-up, fuddle, intricacy, involution, involvement, jumble, kettle of fish, labyrinth, macaroni, maze, medley, mess, mind-breaker, mingle-mangle, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix-up, moil, mull, muss, olio, pandemonium, pell-mell, perplexity, perturbation, pother, puddle, puzzle, ravel, rough-and-tumble, rout, shuffle, skein, to-do, tumble, turbidity, turmoil), confundir (addle, astonish, astound, baffle, befog, befuddle, bewilder, confound, confuse, confusing, confute, daze, dazzle, disarray, disconcert, distract, dizzy, dumbfound, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, flabbergast, floor, flummox, flurry, fluster, fog, gravel, interfuse, intermingle, jumble, maze, mistake, mix up, moider, muddy, mull, nonplus, obfuscate, obscure, overwhelm, perplex, put out, puzzle, rattle, ravel, stagger), barafunda (confusion, mess, topsy-turvy, turmoil), balbúrdia (agitation, bedlam, confusion, foul-up, fracas, mess, racket, riot, rumpus, stirabout, tumult, uproar), atrapalhar (confuse, discountenance, disturb, embarrass, flurry, hinder, inhibit, mix up, nonplus, obscure, perplex, prevent, puzzle, rattle). (various references) | |
Romanian | zãpãci (addle, bedazzle, bewilder, confound, confuse, daze, disconcert, dizzy, embrangle, entangle, flurry, gravel, jumble, knot, maze, muss, nonplus, pie, pose, shuffle), zãpãcealã (Babel, bewilderment, confusion, daze, discomfiture, disorder, distraction, entanglement, flurry, fuddle, haze, jumble, kerfuffle, mix up, topsy turvy), tulbura (agitate, bewilder, cloud, confuse, disconcert, distract, disturb, flurry, flutter, fret, incommode, indispose, interrupt, intrude upon, Mar, muddy, perturb, puddle, ripple, stir, trouble, upset, vex, worry), talmeş-balmeş (confusion, farrago, fustian, glory-hole, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, hurry-scurry, jumble, mix up, olio, topsy turvy, upside down, welter), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), harababurã (confusion, fuss, glory-hole, hubbub, jumble, mess, mix up, motley, pease meal, pell mell, turmoil, welter), face de mântuialã (fudge, mess, slobber, underwork), confuzie (bewilderment, blankness, clutter, confusion, disorder, distraction, embroilment, fuss, haziness, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, mix up, obfuscation, shuffle, storm, tumble), cârpãci (botch, bungle, mess, mess up, patch up), amesteca (admix, adulterate, amalgamate, attemper, blend, combine, commingle, compound, concoct, confound, confuse, cross, dilute, embroil, entangle, immix, interblend, interfuse, intermingle, intermix, intersperse, involve, jumble, medley, melt, merge, mingle, mix, pie, poison, rabble, shuffle, temper, work), amestec (admixture, blend, composite, compound, concoction, connection, crossing, disarray, farrago, fusion, hash, hotchpotch, huddle, interference, intermixture, intervening, jumble, mash, medley, mixture, olio, omnium gatherum, palaver), încurca (complicate, confound, confuse, cumber, discomfit, embrangle, embroil, entangle, floor, foul, gravel, hamper, hash, hinder, intertangle, involve, jumble, maze, medley, nonplus, perplex, pile up, pose, put out, puzzle, restrain, shuffle, sputter, stump, tangle, trouble), încâlci (confound, entangle, intertangle, mat, tangle), îmbãta (flush, inebriate, intoxicate, swill, tipple). (various references) | |
Russian | неразбериха (bewilderment, box-up, confusion, hurrah's nest, mix, mix up, pell mell, pell-mell, skein, snafu, topsy-turvydom, welter), путать беспорядок, путаница в голове, делать кое-как (foozle, fudge). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zbrkati (confuse, fuddle), zbrka (bungle, confusion, disarray, fuddle, helter-skelter, hugger mugger, imbroglio, jumble, macaronics, maze, mess, mishmash, muss, omnium gatherum, pell mell, welter), zamrsiti (foul, foul up, mesh, mess up, ravel, tangle), nered (clatter, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorganization, mess, snafu, trouble, tumble). (various references) | |
Spanish | perplejidad (bewilderment, disconcertedness, embarrassment, mystification, nonplus, perplexity, puzzlement), lío (bundle, caper, clutter, do, fuss, game, hash, hassle, imbroglio, intrigue, liaison, mess, mix up, package, palaver, pell mell, pellmell, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, scrape, snarl up, stink, tangle, truss, wad), introducir el desorden en, enredo (build up, do, embroilment, entanglement, hanky panky, involvement, jam, love affair, maze, mess, plot, Ravel, tangle), embrollo (confusion, embroilment, entanglement, fix, fraud, imbroglio, jam, tangle, trick), embrollar (embroil, entangle, foul up, jam, perplex, tangle), desorden (chaos, clutter, confusion, defile, disarray, disorder, lawlessness, litter, muss, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, untidiness), dejar perplejo (beat, perplex, throw), confusión (abashment, baffle, clutter, commotion, confusion, disarray, dislocation, disorganization, distraction, fluster, fog, haziness, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, knockabout, litter, maze, mess, mix up, mix-up, mystification, perplexity, pother, puzzlement, shambles, tangle, turmoil, welter), confundir (abash, baffle, beat, befuddle, bewilder, confound, confuse, disarrange, discombobulate, dish, distract, embrangle, flummox, fluster, Fox, mistake, mix, mix up, nonplus, obscure, rattle, throw), aturdir (abash, befuddle, bemuse, confound, confuse, daze, distract, drug, fluster, fuddle, intoxicate, knock out, numb, stun, stupefy). (various references) | |
Swedish | oreda (confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorganization, distraction, disturbance, embroilment, hurry-scurry, mess, Ravel, shambles, tangle). (various references) | |
Thai | ทำให้ยุ่งเหยิง (clutter, hash, obfuscate, ravel, tangle), ทำให้มึน, ความวุ่นวาย (combustion, snafu), คิ"เรื่อยเปื่อย (muddily). (various references) | |
Turkish | yüzüne gözüne bulaştırmak (boggle, botch, bungle, crab, fluff, foozle, goof up, hash, hash up, make a hash of, make a mess of, make cock-up of smth., mess things up, mess up, scamp), sersemlik (daze, dizziness, dullness, fuddle, giddiness, silliness, stupidity, stupor), karıştırmak (add, admix, amalgamate, blend, churn, commingle, commix, complicate, concoct, confound, confuse, darken, diffuse, disarrange, disarray, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, disturb, embroil, entangle, ferret about, foul, foul up, hash, implicate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, involve, inweave, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, knot, litter, make hay of smth., meld, mess, mess smth. about, mess up, mingle, mistake, mix, mix up, monkey around with, monkey with, muss, pick, poke, poke up, Ravel, ruffle, scramble, scramble together, scramble up, shuffle, snarl, stir, stir up, tamper with, tangle, tousle, trim, tumble, unsettle, weave), karışıklık (bedlam, bungle, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disturbance, dogs dinner, embroilment, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, imbroglio, indiscrimination, intricacy, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mess, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muss, perturbation, pie, pother, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, riot, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, tumble, turbidity, turbulence, unrest, upheaval, upset, wooliness, woolliness), karışık şey (complex, farrago, hash, hodgpodge, melange, mess, olio, tangled thing), becerememek (boggle, botch, bungle, bust, do badly, fail, goof, goof up, make sorry show, muff), şaşkınlık (amazement, astonishment, being surprised, bewilderment, blankness, confusion, consternation, daze, discomfiture, embarrassment, fuddle, gape, maze, nonplus, perplexity, puzzle, puzzlement, surprise, wonder, wonderment). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яalсyюdyrmak (confuse, mix up). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | змішане товариство, бентежити (abash, affront, bewilder, confound, confuse, damp, dank, daunt, disarray, discomfit, disconcert, discourage, dismay, disorder, embarrass, embrangle, flummox, overset, perplex, perturb, puddle, puzzle, upturn), псувати (alloy, bedevil, blemish, blight, blur, break, corrupt, cripple, debase, deface, deform, degrade, deprave, destroy, deteriorate, discount, disfigure, do for, envenom, erode, flaw, make miserable, mess, mismanage, muff, perish, prejudice, punish, queer, spoil, vitiate, waste), плутати (addle, ball, bedevil, perplex, snarl, wander), плутанина (boggle, confusion, derangement, embroilment, hubbub, hurly burly, intricacy, involute, jumble, maze, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mix up, muss, patchwork, pell mell, pellmell, puddle, skein, snarl, snarl up, tangle, wooliness, woolliness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tình trạng lung tung, tình trạng lộn xộn (mess, mix-up, mull, pell-mell, topsyturvydom, trouble). (various references) | |
Welsh | tryblith (chaos), stomp (botch, bungle, mess), cyboli (bother, mess, talk nonsense). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | moddelen. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "muddle": muddled, muddleheaded, muddleheadedly, muddleheadedness, muddleheadednesses, muddler, muddlers, muddles. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "muddle": bemuddle. (additional references) | |
Words containing "muddle": bemuddled, bemuddles. (additional references) | |
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"Muddle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Duddle, guddle, Maddle, middled, modle, Mudale, mudde, Muddie, muddlec, muddlee, muddleh, muddlen, mudel, Mudgley, mudler, mudre, Naddle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "muddle" (pronounced mu"dul) |
| 4 | -u" d u l | befuddle, cuddle, huddle, puddle, Ruddle. |
| 3 | -d u l | addle, alkaloidal, antipodal, astraddle, backpedal, beadle, Bedell, bindle, Boodle, bridal, bridle, Brindle, bundle, caboodle, candle, caudal, caudle, Coddle, colloidal, cradle, dawdle, Doodle, dwindle, feudal, fiddle, fondle, genocidal, girdle, handle, homicidal, hurdle, idle, idol, idyll, spindle, straddle, suicidal, supermodel, swindle, intermodal, intertidal, kindle, ladle, manhandle, medal, meddle, middle, minoxidil, mishandle, modal, model, mollycoddle, needle, noodle, paddle, panhandle, pedal, peddle, Piddle, poodle, pyramidal, rekindle, remodel, rhizoidal, riddle, Rundle, saddle, sandal, scandal, Seidel, sidle, tidal, toddle, trundle, twaddle, Tweedle, twiddle, unbundle, vandal, Waddle, Wedel, widdle, Windle, yodel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-l-m-u" | |
-1 letter: muled. | |
-2 letters: dude, duel, leud, lude, meld, mule. | |
-3 letters: del, dud, due, eld, elm, emu, led, leu, lum, med, mel, mud. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, el, em, me, mu, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-l-m-u" | |
+1 letter: moulded, muddled, muddler, muddles. | |
+2 letters: bemuddle, deplumed, drumbled, muddlers, mudslide, unmolded. | |
+3 letters: bemuddled, bemuddles, displumed, modulated, mouldered, mudslides. | |
+4 letters: bemuddling, cuddlesome, demodulate, duodecimal, medullated, multisided, smouldered. | |
+5 letters: demodulated, demodulates, demodulator, duodecimals, loudmouthed, maladjusted, midlatitude, misguidedly, modularized, multibladed, multiheaded. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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