difficulty vs hassle

difficulty

noun
  • An awkward situation or quarrel. 

  • Physical danger from the environment, especially with risk of drowning 

  • An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal. 

  • The state of being difficult, or hard to do. 

  • An objection. 

  • That which cannot be easily understood or believed. 

hassle

noun
  • A fight or argument. 

  • Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems. 

  • An action which is not worth the difficulty involved. 

verb
  • To engage in a mock dogfight. 

  • To pick a fight or start an argument with. 

  • To trouble, to bother, to annoy. 

adj
  • hassling; hasslesome 

How often have the words difficulty and hassle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )