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confound

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Is confound a Scrabble word?

Yes, confound is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 14 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of confound?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (sometimes proscribed) To make something worse.Examples: "Don't confound the situation by yelling."; "While she had obeyed him, smiling sweetly all the time, she had nursed a growing resentment of what she called his "Latin American macho attitude." To confound the problem, his mother, who lived with them on and off, was described by the wife as being as domineering as her son."proscribedsometimes

2. (dated) To damn (a mild oath).Examples: "Confound you!"; "Confound the lady!"; ""Number 43 is no better, Doctor," said the head-warder, in a slightly reproachful accent, looking in round the corner of my door. "Confound 43!" I responded from behind the pages of the Australian Sketcher."dated

3. (archaic) To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.Examples: "To mortal men, he with his horrid crew / Lay vanquiſht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe / Confounded though immortal: But his doom[…]"; "Imagine twenty thouſand of them breaking into the midſt of an European Army, confounding the Ranks, overturning the Carriages, battering the Warriors Faces into Mummy, by terrible Yerks from their hinder Hoofs."archaic

noun (English)

1. (statistics) A confounding variable.Examples: "The participants certainly differ in how their practice is distributed (1, 2, or 3 days), but they also differ in how much total practice they get (3, 6, or 9 hours). This is a perfect example of a confound—it is impossible to tell if the results are due to one factor (distribution of practice) or the other (total practice hours); the two factors covary perfectly."Synonyms: confounder

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "confound"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "confound"?

Scrabble
14 points
C3
O1
N1
F4
O1
U1
N1
D2
Words With Friends
18 points
C4
O1
N2
F4
O1
U2
N2
D2

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