Troubles
"troubles" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Troubles” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #7,298. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,298
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The continued violence and terrorist, military and paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland that happened from the mid 1960s to the late 1990s.
Corpus desk
Index EN-troubles · Troubles · English
Troubles · rank #7,298 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,298
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH triggered
Nearest frequency peer: triggered (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Troubles”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- successor
successor
92,706 corpus weight
- triggered
triggered
92,704 corpus weight
- Troubles
Troubles
92,703 corpus weight
- uncertain
uncertain
92,702 corpus weight
- upload
upload
92,701 corpus weight
- vector
vector
92,700 corpus weight
What this shows “Troubles” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Troubles |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Troubles”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Troubles, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #7,298 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The continued violence and terrorist, military and paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland that happened from the mid 1960s to the late 1990s.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Troubles, with forms such as "rtoubles", "torubles", and "trobules". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "trouble", "troubled", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is Troubles, spelled T-R-O-U-B-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1The continued violence and terrorist, military and paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland that happened from the mid 1960s to the late 1990s.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Troubles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Under McGlinchey's leadership, the INLA committed several atrocities and murders during the Troubles, resulting in the Co Derry native's imprisonment both north and south of the border.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtoubles
- torubles
- trobules
- troubbles
- troubels
- troubless
- troublles
- troublse
- troulbes
- trroubles
- truobles
- ttroubles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Troubles - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).