struggle
strug·gle/ˈstɹʌɡəl/noun, verb
struggle is spelled S-T-R-U-G-G-L-E, 2 syllables: strug·gle. The wrong spelling people search most is stuggle: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 53 of all searches for the word. Struggle is a noun meaning “A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task”. The plural of struggle is struggles.
How many letters and syllables are in struggle?
| Letters | 8: S-T-R-U-G-G-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: strug·gle |
| In writing | 42 times per million words; the 2,392nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, stuggle, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 struggle?
Struggle is spelled S-T-R-U-G-G-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 53 of the searches for struggle 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 struggle?
Struggle appears 42 times per million words in written English, the 2,392nd 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 struggle?
- US /ˈstɹʌɡəl/
- US [ˈstɹʌɡl̩]
Struggle has 2 syllables, split strug·gle in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-struggle.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-struggle.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of struggle
- struggles plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- struggling participle, present
- struggled participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does struggle mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task.
- 2
Strife, contention, great effort.
verb
- 1
To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
During the centuries, the people of Ireland struggled constantly to assert their right to govern themselves.
- 2
To have difficulty with something.
One of the doctor’s patients struggled with depression.
- 3
To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
She struggled to escape from her assailant's grasp.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Struggle in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | lutte , lutter, s'efforcer, combattre |
| German | Kampf, Gefecht, Struggle , sich durchbeißen, sich schwer tun, struggeln |
| Portuguese | luta , lutar, debater-se |
| Spanish | lucha, brega, bregadura, renqueo , luchar, esforzarse con denuedo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.