travailler
\tʁa.va.je\
The verdict
“travailler” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #780 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #780
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tourmenter ; soumettre à une gêne ; causer de la peine ; torturer psychologiquement.
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 | travailler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁa.va.je\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “travailler” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for travailler is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁa.va.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #780 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for travailler, with forms such as "rtavailler", "tarvailler", and "traaviller". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "travaillez", "travaillés", "travailleur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is travailler, spelled T-R-A-V-A-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Tourmenter ; soumettre à une gêne ; causer de la peine ; torturer psychologiquement.
- 2Agiter, exciter au mécontentement, à la révolte.
- 3Contraindre à certains exercices.
- 4Soumettre une matière à un travail, la façonner.
- 5Soigner, exécuter avec soin.
- 6Étudier.
- 7Se donner de la peine ou faire un effort soutenu pour exécuter quelque chose ; faire un travail, un ouvrage.
- 8Apprendre, fournir un effort pour l’école.
- 9Avoir de l’occupation, de l’ouvrage, en parlant de ceux qui exercent quelque profession ; et par extension, en parlant de l'établissement dans lequel se déroule cette activité.
- 10Être en mouvement et produire un effet utile.
- 11Fructifier, produire intérêt, en parlant des richesses.
- 12Fermenter, en parlant du vin, de la bière, du cidre, etc.
- 13Être dans une sorte d’agitation causée par quelque projet, par quelque ouvrage, en parlant de la pensée.
- 14Subir un effort, se déformer sous l’action de l’humidité, de la chaleur, etc., en parlant des matériaux de construction.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtavailler,tarvailler,traaviller,travailelr,travailer,travaillerr,travaillre,travaliler,travialler,travvailler,trravailler,trvaailler,ttravailler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of travailler - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “travailler”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-A-V-A-I-L-L-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʁa.va.je\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “travaillez” - see the side-by-side comparison. travailler vs travaillez
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.