befuddlement
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.50 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "His words struck me with a sense of befuddlement that lasted until I got home."
- "1907, Algernon Blackwood, “Max Hensig—Bacteriologist and Murderer” Chapter 4, in The Listener and Other Stories, New York: Knopf, 1917, p. 105, It was, of course, an effect of hypnotism, he remembered thinking, vaguely through the befuddlement of his drink—this culminating effect of an evil and remorseless personality acting upon one that was diseased and extra receptive."
- "A change came over his wind-beaten face, a slight befuddlement, the shock of some minor fact jarred loose."