difficulty

Other forms of difficulty

plural

difficulties·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about difficulty

What does difficulty mean?

difficulty means "an effort that is inconvenient". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in difficulty?

difficulty has 4 syllables: dif-fi-cul-ty. The stress falls on "dif". In IPA it is /ˈdɪfəkəlti/.

What is another word for difficulty?

Close synonyms include trouble, difficultness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of difficulty?

The recorded antonyms are ease.

Is difficulty a common word?

difficulty is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.