Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being confused.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being confused.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Able to be confused.
  • noun A word or phrase that is easily confused with another

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective so similar as to be easily identified for another thing

Etymologies

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From confuse +‎ -able

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Examples

  • It's also easily confusable with iPod, and it's owned by Fujitsu in the USA.

    Archive 2010-01-01 2010

  • It's also easily confusable with iPod, and it's owned by Fujitsu in the USA.

    iPad, therefore i...Read? 2010

  • Best spelling test I ever saw was one that deliberately threw together words with confusable spelling just to make it harder: Which of the following words is incorrect?

    Jen GraduRants 2010

  • The spraypaint used to be an homage to Woody Allen, but is now nearly ruined and more confusable with a violent album cover.

    Get the Word to the Streets 2008

  • The spraypaint used to be an homage to Woody Allen, but is now nearly ruined and more confusable with a violent album cover.

    Get the Word to the Streets 2008

  • Since husbandry et cetera influences would predate and influence both eugenics and evolutionary biology as a common ancestor .-, the relationship is both clearly there and clearly confusable.

    Dr. West, meet Dr. Tinkle, Creationist eugenicist - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • I also found a potentially very useful site called Newsroom101.com, full of exercises in grammar, AP style, and for you Most Egregious Misuse addicts, exercises in easily confusable words.

    The WritingYA Weblog: Fun for Your Inner Editor a. fortis 2007

  • I also found a potentially very useful site called Newsroom101.com, full of exercises in grammar, AP style, and for you Most Egregious Misuse addicts, exercises in easily confusable words.

    Archive 2007-08-01 tanita davis 2007

  • And why even with these two more confusable entities steps couldn't have been taken to remove any false impression of approval or liability.

    Whitehouse Endorses Blizzard Customer Service 2005

  • He should have consented to know but the grand personal adventure on the grand personal basis: nothing short of this, no poor cognisance of confusable, pettifogging things, the sphere of earth-grubbing questions and two-penny issues, would begin to be, on any side, Olympian enough.

    The Finer Grain Henry James 1879

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