The word miscombobulated may be misspelled because there is an entry for the term discombulated, meaning upset or confused.
Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield discuss the history of the word discombobulate with Wall Street Journal language columnist Ben Zimmer.
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For more on discombobulate, visit Zimmer's Word Routes column on Vocabulary.com.
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