Which to use
“travaillée” is an adjective and “travaillent” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #26,905
- “travaillée” frequency rank
- #3,424
- “travaillent” frequency rank
- 30329
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | travaillée | travaillent |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de travaillé. | Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de travailler. |
Where the eye mixes travaillée and travaillent
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence. travaillée runs 10 letters (CCVCVVCCVV) against travaillent's 11 (CCVCVVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between travaillée and travaillent
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: travaillée is \tʁa.va.je\ while travaillent is \tʁa.vaj\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30329, 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\. travaillent is at rank #3,424, tagged as averb, pronounced \tʁa.vaj\.
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 30329, this pair ranks #311,093 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of travaillée vs travaillent
Shared letters: aeilrtv. Private to "travaillée": é. Private to "travaillent": n.
"travaillée" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVV · "travaillent" · 11 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- travaillent ← rtavaillent · tarvaillent · traavillent · travailelnt · travailent · travaillennt · travaillentt · travailletn
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "travaillée" for "travaillent" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "travaillée" or "travaillent" show up more?
After this comparison
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "travaillée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "travaillent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #311,093 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "travaillée" and "travaillent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "travaillée 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 #311,093 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.