Troubles
"troubles" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Troubles” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #7,298 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #7,298
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The continued violence and terrorist, military and paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland that happened from the mid 1960s to the late 1990s.
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) |
Where “Troubles” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Troubles is 8 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #7,298 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “Troubles”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-R-O-U-B-L-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “trouble” - see the side-by-side comparison. Troubles vs trouble
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.