confusable

American  

[kuhn-fyoo-zuh-buhl] / kənˈfyu zə bəl /

adjective

1. easily confused.

   Letters with similar shapes are confusable.

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noun

1. a word or phrase that is likely to be confused with another, as immanent , whose meaning is often confused with imminent .

Etymology

Origin of confusable

First recorded in 1860–65; confuse ( def. ) + -able ( def. )

Example Sentences

Mr Danbury, writing to NHS England, said: "This is a readily foreseeable confusion which could apply in any hospital and could be avoided by use of clearer and less confusable means of communication and expression of number."

From BBC

But short, one syllable, commands, so “laugh” being one of them, are easily confusable with other things.

From Slate

It seems like whether these specimens are tyrannosauroids or carcharodontasaurians is kind of a big deal… should they really be so easily confusable, particularly with such well preserved specimens?

From Scientific American

Though the vital trait of the person, his genuine individuality, doubtless lies, not in his being exactly numerable, but in his being aboriginal and originative; in a word, in his self-activity, in his being a centre of autonomous social recognition; yet exactly numerable he indeed is, and must be, not confusable with any other, else his professed autonomy, his claim of rights and his sense of duty, can have no significance, must vanish in the universal confusion belonging to the indefinite.

From Project Gutenberg

He should have consented to know but the grand personal adventure on the grand personal basis: nothing short of this, no poor cognisance of confusable, pettifogging things, the sphere of earth-grubbing questions and two-penny issues, would begin to be, on any side, Olympian enough.

From Project Gutenberg