travaillé vs travaillées

Which to use

“travaillé” and “travaillées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#2,253
“travaillé” frequency rank: #25,157
“travaillées” frequency rank: 27410
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	travaillé	travaillées
Definition	Auquel on a accordé beaucoup de temps, d'intérêt.	Féminin pluriel de travaillé.

Same sound, different letters: travaillé vs travaillées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. travaillé runs 9 letters (CCVCVVCCV) against travaillées's 11 (CCVCVVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch

travaillé

11 ch

travaillées

Same sound, different spelling - travaillé / travaillées

This is the hard kind. travaillé and travaillées 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 2 extra letter(s) - “travaillé” sits inside “travaillées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27410, 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\. 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 27410, this pair ranks #329,164 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of travaillé vs travaillées

Shared letters: ailrtvé. Private to "travaillé": -. Private to "travaillées": es.

"travaillé" · 9 letters · shape CCVCVVCCV · "travaillées" · 11 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "travaillé" and "travaillées" be used interchangeably?

No. They are pronounced the same (\tʁa.va.je\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

Frequency check: "travaillé" vs "travaillées" - which ranks higher?

"travaillé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,253 in our French list, against #25,157 for "travaillées". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

"travaillé" and "travaillées" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

Full dictionary entry for "travaillé" 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 #329,164 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"travaillé" and "travaillées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "travaillées vs travailleuse". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #329,164 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.