trouble: meaning and words from its letters
7 letters · 9 letter points · starts with T · ends with E
Meaning of trouble
noun
- countable, uncountable
A distressing or dangerous situation.
Example: He was in trouble when the rain started.
- countable, uncountable
A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
Example: The trouble was a leaking brake line.
- countable, uncountable
A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- countable, uncountable
The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
Listed forms: troubles.
Source: Wiktionary — trouble.
verb
- transitive
To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
Example: What she said about narcissism is troubling me.
- transitive
In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
Example: I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
- transitive, usually
To physically afflict.
Example: My bad knee is troubling me.
- intransitive, reflexive
To take pains (to do something); to bother.
Example: I won’t trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.
Listed forms: troubles, troubling, troubled.
Source: Wiktionary — trouble.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for trouble.
noun
a source of difficulty
noun
an angry disturbance
noun
an effort that is inconvenient
noun
a strong feeling of anxiety
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is trouble in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of trouble
T(1) + R(1) + O(1) + U(1) + B(3) + L(1) + E(1) = 9 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of trouble
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from trouble
91 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in trouble. Showing up to 24, longest first.