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

#25,157
“travaillées” frequency rank
#26,566
“travaillés” frequency rank
51723
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature travaillées travaillés
Definition Féminin pluriel de travaillé. Masculin pluriel de travaillé.

Same sound, different letters: travaillées vs travaillés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. travaillées runs 11 letters (CCVCVVCCVVC) against travaillés's 10 (CCVCVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
travaillées
10 ch
travaillés

Ear matches; page differs - travaillées and travaillés

This is the hard kind. travaillées 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51723, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

travaillées is recorded at frequency rank #25,157, 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 51723, this pair ranks #152,928 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of travaillées vs travaillés

Shared letters: ailrstvé. Private to "travaillées": e. Private to "travaillés": -.

"travaillées" · 11 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVVC  ·  "travaillés" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "travaillées" and "travaillés" 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: "travaillées" vs "travaillés" - which ranks higher?
"travaillées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,157 in our French list, against #26,566 for "travaillés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "travaillées" 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 #152,928 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "travaillées" and "travaillés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "travaillés vs travailleuse". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #152,928 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list