travaillaient
\tʁa.va.jɛ\
The verdict
“travaillaient” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,923. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,923
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de travailler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-travaillaient · travaillaient · French
travaillaient · rank #13,923 · 17 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,923
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH timing
Nearest frequency peer: timing (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « travaillaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tampon
tampon
86,081 corpus weight
- tesla
tesla
86,080 corpus weight
- timing
timing
86,079 corpus weight
- travaillaie…
travaillaient
86,078 corpus weight
- tre
tre
86,077 corpus weight
- trempé
trempé
86,076 corpus weight
What this shows « travaillaient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | travaillaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁa.va.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #13,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « travaillaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around travaillaient (IPA \tʁa.va.jɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,923 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de travailler.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for travaillaient, with forms such as "rtavaillaient", "tarvaillaient", and "traavillaient". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "travaillent", "travaillant", "travaillait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is travaillaient, spelled T-R-A-V-A-I-L-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de travailler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how travaillaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’idée de vivre dans une ville ouatée d’amiante, poudrée par le poison, guettée par l’asbestose, ne me préoccupait pas plus que les autres résidents de Thetford Mines, qui naissaient, grandissaient, apprenaient, flirtaient, baisaient, se mariaient, s’assuraient, travaillaient, divorçaient, socialisaient, rebaisaient, vieillissaient, toussaient, et mouraie…
Aussi les dix paires de mâchoires, depuis la petite Estelle dont les dents commençaient à pousser, jusqu’au vieux Bonnemort en train de perdre les siennes, travaillaient d’un tel cœur que les os eux-mêmes disparaissaient.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtavaillaient
- tarvaillaient
- traavillaient
- travailaient
- travailalient
- travaillaeint
- travaillaiennt
- travaillaientt
- travaillaietn
- travaillainet
- travailliaent
- travalilaient
- traviallaient
- travvaillaient
- trravaillaient
- trvaaillaient
- ttravaillaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of travaillaient - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).