travailler
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#780
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
travailler is aFrenchverb. It means: Tourmenter ; soumettre à une gêne ; causer de la peine ; torturer psychologiquement. Pronounced \tʁa.va.je\. It ranks #780 in French word frequency. Often confused with travaillez and travaillés.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for travailler is 10 letters long, classified as averb, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for travailler, with forms such as "rtavailler", "tarvailler", and "traaviller". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is travailler, spelled T-R-A-V-A-I-L-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for travailler
Misspelling Variants of "travailler"
Frequency rank: #780 in French
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