Which to use
“travaillé” and “travaillée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,253
- “travaillé” frequency rank
- #26,905
- “travaillée” frequency rank
- 29158
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | travaillé | travaillée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Auquel on a accordé beaucoup de temps, d'intérêt. | Féminin singulier de travaillé. |
Same sound, different letters: travaillé vs travaillée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. travaillé runs 9 letters (CCVCVVCCV) against travaillée's 10 (CCVCVVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - travaillé / travaillée
This is the hard kind. travaillé and travaillée are pronounced identically (\tʁa.va.je\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “travaillé” sits inside “travaillée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29158, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
travaillé is recorded at frequency rank #2,253, classified as anadj, pronounced \tʁa.va.je\. travaillée is at rank #26,905, 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 29158, this pair ranks #318,408 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of travaillé vs travaillée
Shared letters: ailrtvé. Private to "travaillé": -. Private to "travaillée": e.
"travaillé" · 9 letters · shape CCVCVVCCV · "travaillée" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVV
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "travaillé" and "travaillée" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "travaillé" or "travaillée"?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "travaillé" / "travaillée". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "travaillé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "travaillée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #318,408 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "travaillé" and "travaillée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "travaillée vs travailleuse". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #318,408 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.