flummoxed
"flummoxed" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flummoxed” is uncommon English (frequency #86,283 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,283
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Confused, perplexed or flustered.
Corpus desk
Index EN-flummoxed · flummoxed · English
flummoxed · rank #86,283 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,283
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH floodlit
Nearest frequency peer: floodlit (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “flummoxed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- firman
firman
13,722 corpus weight
- flashmob
flashmob
13,721 corpus weight
- floodlit
floodlit
13,719 corpus weight
- flummoxed
flummoxed
13,718 corpus weight
- foaled
foaled
13,717 corpus weight
- Fortunato
Fortunato
13,714 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “flummoxed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flummoxed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “flummoxed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
flummoxed is uncommon English at frequency #86,283 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Confused, perplexed or flustered.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for flummoxed, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From flummox + -ed. The correct English form is flummoxed, spelled F-L-U-M-M-O-X-E-D.
Definition
- 1Confused, perplexed or flustered.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flummoxed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He's good at what he knows, but he gets completely flummoxed when new problems arise.
‘Itʼs amazing, these bosses call all the shots but are flummoxed by the smallest technological advances.’
Etymology
From flummox + -ed.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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