travaux

\tʁa.vo\

/\tʁa.vo\/ noun

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The verdict

“travaux” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #641. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#641
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de travail : Suite d’études, d’opérations, d’entreprises, pour élaborer, construire, édifier, quelque chose.

Corpus desk

Index FR-travaux · travaux · French

travaux · rank #641 · 10 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #641
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH sinon

Nearest frequency peer: sinon (-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 « travaux »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « travaux » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

travaux vs tribaux
71% similar
travaux vs travail
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for travaux
PropertyValue
Headwordtravaux
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁa.vo\
Letters7
Frequency rank#641
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « travaux »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).travauxse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sinon » (#640), « voici » (#642), « scène » (#639). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « travaux » est au #641. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around travaux (IPA \tʁa.vo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #641 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for travaux, with forms such as "rtavaux", "tarvaux", and "traavux". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "tribaux", "travail", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is travaux, spelled T-R-A-V-A-U-X.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de travail : Suite d’études, d’opérations, d’entreprises, pour élaborer, construire, édifier, quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Chantier.
  3. 3
    Désigne l’ensemble des résultats obtenus par un scientifique.
  4. 4
    Opérations sylvicoles nécessitant un investissement, des dépenses nettes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how travaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les travaux d’Hercule.
  2. Ils gèrent leur domaine en exploitation semi-directe, par l’intermédiaire d’un régisseur qui a la haute main sur les travaux et les ouvriers, le plus souvent des ouvriers employés au mois, "mesadiers" venus de la montagne et plus dociles que les journaliers venus du village voisin.

Antonyms

coupe

This word in other languages

work(English)obras(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rtavaux
  • tarvaux
  • traavux
  • travauxx
  • travaxu
  • travuax
  • travvaux
  • trravaux
  • trvaaux
  • ttravaux

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of travaux - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

rtavaux2tarvaux2traavux2travauxx1travaxu2travuax2travvaux1trravaux1
Edit distance from "travaux"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "travaux"?
"travaux" is spelled T-R-A-V-A-U-X. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁa.vo\.
What does "travaux" mean?
As a noun, "travaux" means: Pluriel de travail : Suite d’études, d’opérations, d’entreprises, pour élaborer, construire, édifier, quelque chose.
What words are commonly confused with "travaux"?
"travaux" is commonly confused with "tribaux", "travail". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "travaux"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "travaux" is \tʁa.vo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "travaux" come from?
"travaux" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "travaux", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

appelle#643changer#645qualité#636grandes#647

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

meilleure10 variantsjustice10 variantsbonjour10 variantspartout10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list