What is the answer to the crossword clue "bewildered"?

There is more than one. 7 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Four squares is LOST, in the figurative sense of not following what is happening. Five squares is MAZED, an old word that survives mainly in puzzles and in the related amazed.

How many letters is the answer to "bewildered"?

Anything from 4 to 10. The length with the most candidates is 7. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.

How reliable are these answers?

5 of the 7 appear in two independently compiled reference works, WordNet and Moby Thesaurus, rather than one. All of them are in the 173,000-word dictionary this site searches. None of them comes from any published puzzle.

Crossword clue

Bewildered crossword clue

7 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "bewildered", from 4 letters up to 10, grouped below by the length of your slot.

Written by Blake Boege

Answers by length

6 different lengths answer this one. Yours is whichever row matches the squares in the grid.

Letters	Answers
4	lostconfirmed by two sources
5	mazedconfirmed by two sources
7	baffledconfirmed by two sources bemused
8	confusedconfirmed by two sources
9	befuddled
10	confoundedconfirmed by two sources

What this list looks like

The short ones are worth learning: LOST at 4 letters, which is where a setter goes when the grid is tight.

Which one does the setter mean?

Four squares is LOST, in the figurative sense of not following what is happening. Five squares is MAZED, an old word that survives mainly in puzzles and in the related amazed.

How these differ

These differ in what caused the confusion. BAFFLED and CONFOUNDED are about a problem that resists solving. CONFUSED and BEFUDDLED are about a mind that is not working clearly, BEFUDDLED often implying drink or age. BEMUSED is the interesting one, because it properly means bewildered and is now very often used to mean mildly amused instead, a shift dictionaries have started to record. MAZED and bewildered are close cousins: a maze bewilders you and to bewilder was originally to lead someone into the wilds.

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Where these answers come from

This is a dictionary answering a question, not a copied answer key. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “bewildered” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 5 of them too. We hold no newspaper's answer key and reproduce no published crossword.

Common questions

What is the answer to the crossword clue "bewildered"?: There is more than one. 7 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Four squares is LOST, in the figurative sense of not following what is happening. Five squares is MAZED, an old word that survives mainly in puzzles and in the related amazed.
How many letters is the answer to "bewildered"?: Anything from 4 to 10. The length with the most candidates is 7. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.
How reliable are these answers?: 5 of the 7 appear in two independently compiled reference works, WordNet and Moby Thesaurus, rather than one. All of them are in the 173,000-word dictionary this site searches. None of them comes from any published puzzle.