Which to use
“travaillée” and “travaillées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #26,905
- “travaillée” frequency rank
- #25,157
- “travaillées” frequency rank
- 52062
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | travaillée | travaillées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de travaillé. | Féminin pluriel de travaillé. |
Same sound, different letters: travaillée vs travaillées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. travaillée runs 10 letters (CCVCVVCCVV) against travaillées's 11 (CCVCVVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - travaillée / travaillées
This is the hard kind. travaillée 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 1 extra letter(s) - “travaillée” sits inside “travaillées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52062, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
travaillée is recorded at frequency rank #26,905, 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 52062, this pair ranks #150,453 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of travaillée vs travaillées
Shared letters: aeilrtvé. Private to "travaillée": -. Private to "travaillées": s.
"travaillée" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVV · "travaillées" · 11 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "travaillée" and "travaillées" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "travaillée" or "travaillées" show up more?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "travaillée" 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 #150,453 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "travaillée" and "travaillées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "travaillée vs travailleuse". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #150,453 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.