travailler à
\tʁa.va.je a\
The verdict
“travailler à” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’occuper de, s’efforcer de.
Corpus desk
Index FR-travailler-a · travailler à · French
travailler à · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | travailler à |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁa.va.je a\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
travailler à is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁa.va.je a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "S’occuper de, s’efforcer de.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for travailler à, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is travailler à, spelled T-R-A-V-A-I-L-L-E-R- -À.
Definition
- 1S’occuper de, s’efforcer de.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how travailler à appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Travailler à son salut, à sa fortune.
Travailler au bonheur des hommes.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.