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Confusable:

Part of speech: adjective

Sense: capable of being easily confused or mistaken for something else

Usage:

• It is important to carefully choose fonts that are not confusable with one another in order to ensure legibility.
• The twins dressed in confusable costumes, making it difficult for others to tell them apart at the party.

Part of speech: noun

Sense: a word, phrase, or concept that can be easily mistaken for another

Usage:

• Homonyms are examples of confusables in English, as they are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
• The article warns about common confusables in grammar, such as "affect" and "effect".

Part of speech: noun

Sense: a person who is easily confused or mistaken

Usage:

• As a math teacher, I try to offer additional explanations to help the confusables in my class better understand the concepts.
• The game show separated contestants into two teams: the quick learners and the confusables.

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