Which to use
“travaillé” and “travaillés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,253
- “travaillé” frequency rank
- #26,566
- “travaillés” frequency rank
- 28819
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | travaillé | travaillés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Auquel on a accordé beaucoup de temps, d'intérêt. | Masculin pluriel de travaillé. |
Same sound, different letters: travaillé vs travaillés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. travaillé runs 9 letters (CCVCVVCCV) against travaillés's 10 (CCVCVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: travaillé vs travaillés
This is the hard kind. travaillé and travaillés 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 “travaillés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28819, 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\. travaillés is at rank #26,566, 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 28819, this pair ranks #320,495 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of travaillé vs travaillés
Shared letters: ailrtvé. Private to "travaillé": -. Private to "travaillés": s.
"travaillé" · 9 letters · shape CCVCVVCCV · "travaillés" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "travaillé" and "travaillés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "travaillé" or "travaillés" show up more?
After this comparison
"travaillé" and "travaillés" 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 "travaillés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #320,495 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "travaillé" and "travaillés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "travaillés vs travailleuse". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #320,495 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.