travailleur
\tʁa.va.jœʁ\
The verdict
“travailleur” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,507. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,507
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui s’adonne au travail.
Corpus desk
Index FR-travailleur · travailleur · French
travailleur · rank #7,507 · 14 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,507
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transferts
Nearest frequency peer: transferts (-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 « travailleur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- théologie
théologie
92,498 corpus weight
- tournois
tournois
92,496 corpus weight
- transferts
transferts
92,495 corpus weight
- travailleur
travailleur
92,494 corpus weight
- VF
VF
92,492 corpus weight
- échantillons
échantillons
92,490 corpus weight
What this shows « travailleur » 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 | travailleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁa.va.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #7,507 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « travailleur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around travailleur (IPA \tʁa.va.jœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,507 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for travailleur, with forms such as "rtavailleur", "tarvailleur", and "traavilleur". 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", "travailleurs", "travailleuse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is travailleur, spelled T-R-A-V-A-I-L-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui s’adonne au travail.
- 2Celui qui aime travailler.
- 3Salarié, personne vivant de son travail rémunéré, par opposition aux employeurs, capitalistes, patrons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how travailleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les travailleurs avaient repris avec plus d’activité leur rude besogne avec la venue du jour.
Les deux travailleurs essuyèrent leurs visages trempés, réendossèrent leurs tuniques, bouclèrent leurs ceinturons, […].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtavailleur
- tarvailleur
- traavilleur
- travailelur
- travaileur
- travailleru
- travailleurr
- travailluer
- travalileur
- travialleur
- travvailleur
- trravailleur
- trvaailleur
- ttravailleur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of travailleur - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).