A "messy sounding" word for tangled [closed]

Solution 1:

Perhaps you are thinking of snarled, which has two meanings. Lexico has

snarl¹
VERB

1 (of an animal such as a dog) Make an aggressive growl with bared teeth.
They snarled and bared their teeth in a predatory way.

and also

snarl²
VERB

1 (snarl something up) Entangle something.
the trailing lead got snarled up in a bramble bush

Does this word have enough cacophony for you? Unfortunately someone who says

The worst thing about the holidays is having to deal with the snarled Christmas lights.

sounds like a bit of a Scrooge.