8 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
verb mistake one thing for another
verb be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
verb cause to feel embarrassment
originOriginally from Middle English confused (“frustrated, ruined”), from Anglo-Norman confus + Middle English -ed (past participial suffix), from Latin cōnfūsus, past participle of cōnfundō; now equivalent to confuse (a back-formation) + -ed.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0