Which to use
“travaillée” and “travaillés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #26,905
- “travaillée” frequency rank
- #26,566
- “travaillés” frequency rank
- 53471
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | travaillée | travaillés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de travaillé. | Masculin pluriel de travaillé. |
Same sound, different letters: travaillée vs travaillés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. travaillée (CCVCVVCCVV) and travaillés (CCVCVVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Ear matches; page differs - travaillée and travaillés
This is the hard kind. travaillée 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 a single letter - e in “travaillée” becomes s in “travaillés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53471, 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\. 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 53471, this pair ranks #140,505 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of travaillée vs travaillés
Shared letters: ailrtvé. Private to "travaillée": e. Private to "travaillés": s.
"travaillée" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVV · "travaillés" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "travaillée" and "travaillés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "travaillée" or "travaillés" show up more?
What to do next
"travaillée" and "travaillés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "travaillée" 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 #140,505 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "travaillée" and "travaillés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "travaillée vs travailleuse". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #140,505 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.