difficulties
/ˈdɪfɪkəltiz/noun
difficulties is spelled D-I-F-F-I-C-U-L-T-I-E-S. The wrong spelling people search most is dificulties: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 33 of all searches for the word. Difficulties is a noun meaning “plural of difficulty”.
How many letters and syllables are in difficulties?
| Letters | 12: D-I-F-F-I-C-U-L-T-I-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 16 times per million words; the 5,025th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, dificulties, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell difficulties?
Difficulties is spelled D-I-F-F-I-C-U-L-T-I-E-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 34 of the searches for difficulties in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is difficulties?
Difficulties appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,025th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce difficulties?
- /ˈdɪfɪkəltiz/
Difficulties has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-difficulties.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does difficulties mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of difficulty
- 2
colloquiala series of frustrations
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).