Which to use
“travaillais” is a verb and “travaillées” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #18,090
- “travaillais” frequency rank
- #25,157
- “travaillées” frequency rank
- 43247
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | travaillais | travaillées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de travailler. | Féminin pluriel de travaillé. |
Where the eye mixes travaillais and travaillées
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence. travaillais and travaillées follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CCVCVVCCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: travaillais vs travaillées
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: travaillais is \tʁa.va.jɛ\ while travaillées is \tʁa.va.je\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43247, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
travaillais is recorded at frequency rank #18,090, classified as averb, pronounced \tʁa.va.jɛ\. travaillées is at rank #25,157, tagged as anadj, pronounced \tʁa.va.je\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 43247, this pair ranks #219,555 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of travaillais vs travaillées
Shared letters: ailrstv. Private to "travaillais": -. Private to "travaillées": eé.
"travaillais" · 11 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVVC · "travaillées" · 11 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- travaillais ← rtavaillais · tarvaillais · traavillais · travailais · travailalis · travaillaiss · travaillasi · travaillias
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "travaillais" and "travaillées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "travaillais" vs "travaillées" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "travaillais" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "travaillées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #219,555 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "travaillais" and "travaillées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "travaillées vs travailleuse". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #219,555 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.