travails
\tʁa.vaj\
The verdict
“travails” is uncommon French (frequency #97,501 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,501
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de travail lorsque l’on parle d’activité professionnelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-travails · travails · French
travails · rank #97,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,501
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trapéziste
Nearest frequency peer: trapéziste (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « travails »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- transsubsta…
transsubstantiation
2,502 corpus weight
- trapéziste
trapéziste
2,501 corpus weight
- travails
travails
2,500 corpus weight
- traçait
traçait
2,499 corpus weight
- trempait
trempait
2,498 corpus weight
- Triel
Triel
2,496 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « travails » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | travails |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁa.vaj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « travails » en français
Rare enough to double-check
travails is uncommon French at frequency #97,501 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁa.vaj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de travail lorsque l’on parle d’activité professionnelle.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for travails, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is travails, spelled T-R-A-V-A-I-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de travail lorsque l’on parle d’activité professionnelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how travails appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle avait deux travails. Deux fatigues. Deux épuisements. Mais ça, elle savait faire et, la plupart du temps, appréciait. Elle aimait travailler.
La fatigue de leur emploi au Cirque, des exercices qu’ils faisaient tous les jours chez eux, pendant de longues heures, pour incessamment tenir leur corps dispos et en haleine, et pour que leurs travails ne devinssent pas durs, le souci constant de leur métier et de leur carrière de gymnaste, l’occupation perpétuelle de leurs cerveaux à la recherche d’une…
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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