# troubled vs Troubles

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### troubled
*adjective · IPA /ˈtɹʌbl̩d/ · frequency rank #8,222*
Anxious, worried, careworn.

### Troubles
*name · frequency rank #7,298*
The continued violence and terrorist, military and paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland that happened from the mid 1960s to the late 1990s.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/troubled-vs-troubles