contrat de travail
\kɔ̃.tʁa də tʁa.vaj\
The verdict
“contrat de travail” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Accord par lequel une personne, le salarié, s’engage à fournir un travail sous la conduite et la direction d’une autre, l’employeur, en échange d’une rémunération, le salaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrat de travail |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁa də tʁa.vaj\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “contrat de travail” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for contrat de travail is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.tʁa də tʁa.vaj\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for contrat de travail in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is contrat de travail, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-T- -D-E- -T-R-A-V-A-I-L.
Definition
- 1Accord par lequel une personne, le salarié, s’engage à fournir un travail sous la conduite et la direction d’une autre, l’employeur, en échange d’une rémunération, le salaire.
- 2Document signé par l’employeur et la personne salariée où sont rédigées les spécifications de l’accord conclu en vue de l’exercice d’un emploi dans le cadre du droit du travail.
This word in other languages
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Using “contrat de travail”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-N-T-R-A-T- -D-E- -T-R-A-V-A-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.