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100 Best Synonyms for “Confuse”

August 8, 2026

100 Best Synonyms for

No. Item Definition
1. addle to make confused or muddled
2. agitate to disturb emotionally or mentally
3. alarm to frighten and unsettle
4. baffle to puzzle completely
5. bamboozle to trick or bewilder
6. bedaze to daze or bewilder
7. befog to make unclear or confused
8. befuddle to make unclear or muddled
9. bemuse to leave someone puzzled
10. bewilder to make someone puzzled
11. blend to merge indistinctly
12. blur to make unclear or indistinct
13. catch off guard to surprise and unsettle
14. cloak to hide or obscure
15. cloud to make less clear
16. clutter to fill with disorder
17. complicate to make less simple
18. conflate to combine things wrongly
19. confound to puzzle or mix up
20. cover up to hide or obscure
21. deceive to cause false belief
22. delude to mislead into false belief
23. derange to throw into disorder
24. disarrange to put out of order
25. disconcert to unsettle and puzzle
26. disorder to disturb the order of
27. disorganize to make disorderly
28. disorient to make direction or situation unclear
29. disrupt to disturb normal order
30. distort to twist out of clarity
31. elude to escape understanding
32. embroil to involve in confusion
33. enmesh to entangle in difficulty
34. ensnarl to tangle or complicate
35. entangle to involve in confusion
36. escape to fail to be understood
37. faze to disturb or unsettle
38. floor to completely puzzle someone
39. flummox to greatly puzzle someone
40. fluster to make nervous and confused
41. fog to make mentally unclear
42. fool to deceive or mislead
43. foul up to spoil through confusion
44. fox to baffle or outwit
45. garble to distort into confusion
46. gloss over to obscure by avoiding details
47. gum up to clog or complicate
48. hoodwink to deceive or mislead
49. jolt to shock into confusion
50. jumble to mix into disorder
51. knot to tangle into difficulty
52. lead astray to guide wrongly
53. leave behind to make unable to follow
54. leave guessing to keep uncertain
55. lose to leave unable to follow
56. lump together to treat different things alike
57. misdirect to send attention wrongly
58. misguide to lead wrongly
59. misinform to give wrong information
60. misinterpret to understand wrongly
61. mislead to guide toward a wrong idea
62. misread to interpret wrongly
63. misrepresent to present inaccurately
64. misstate to state incorrectly
65. mix up to mistake or jumble together
66. muddle to make mixed and unclear
67. muddy to make unclear
68. mystify to make hard to understand
69. nonplus to leave at a loss
70. obfuscate to deliberately make unclear
71. obscure to make unclear
72. overload to burden with too much information
73. overwhelm to overpower mentally
74. perplex to make someone uncertain
75. put off to distract or unsettle
76. puzzle to make someone wonder
77. rattle to unsettle and distract
78. scramble to put into disorder
79. shroud to cover in uncertainty
80. shuffle to mix into changed order
81. sidetrack to divert from the point
82. skew to distort or slant
83. snarl to complicate into disorder
84. stump to leave unable to answer
85. stun to shock into confusion
86. stupefy to stun into confusion
87. swamp to overwhelm with too much
88. tangle to make complicated or mixed
89. tease to puzzle over playfully or persistently
90. throw to unsettle or puzzle
91. trick to deceive or mislead
92. trouble to worry or puzzle
93. twist to distort or complicate
94. unnerve to unsettle someone’s composure
95. unsettle to make uncertain or disturbed
96. upset to disturb or unsettle
97. veil to hide or obscure
98. vex to puzzle or annoy
99. warp to distort from truth
100. wrong-foot to catch off guard

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