confusable
/kənˈfjuːzəb(ə)l
/adjective
Able or liable to be confused with something else: convocation was by 1327 no longer confusable with parliament...
- They can also print out labels for farmers to earmark boxes for individual sites and distinguish potentially confusable products, and member invoices to help managers at each drop-off site assemble orders.
- According to his model for discrimination learning, such highly confusable trials should make it difficult for testing of strategies, resulting in matching.
- Conversely, questions with confusable alternatives remained harder than questions with less confusable alternatives even after participants were given the opportunity to change their answers.
noun
A word or phrase that is easily confused with another in meaning or usage, such as mitigate, which is often confused with militate.One place to find eggcorns is in the usage dictionaries and in other inventories of ‘confusables’ (or ‘confusibles’, depending on who you read)....
- Take a special tip from the publisher and check out the ‘common confusables’ section - it is bound to be entertaining, if not enlightening.
- It helps out with confusables, such as infer and imply, and how their meaning is changing as a result of that confusion.
Derivatives
confusability
- Both experiments revealed qualitatively different errors produced by speeded responding versus confusability amongst the alternatives; revision completely corrected the former, but had no effect on the latter.
- However, each language has its own possibilities for orthographic confusability and variability, especially those languages lacking a standard orthography.
- High correlations were found between the confusability of object categories and the confusability of brain activity maps.