travailléesvstravaillezWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: travaillées is a adjective, travaillez is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“travaillées” is an adjective and “travaillez” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#25,157
“travaillées” frequency rank
#16,253
“travaillez” frequency rank
41410
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature travaillées travaillez
Definition Féminin pluriel de travaillé. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de travailler.

Same sound, different letters: travaillées vs travaillez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. travaillées runs 11 letters (CCVCVVCCVVC) against travaillez's 10 (CCVCVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
travaillées
10 ch
travaillez

Ear matches; page differs - travaillées and travaillez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: travaillées and travaillez carry the same recorded pronunciation, \tʁa.va.je\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41410, 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\. travaillez is at rank #16,253, tagged as averb, 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 41410, this pair ranks #233,313 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of travaillées vs travaillez

Shared letters: aeilrtv. Private to "travaillées": sé. Private to "travaillez": z.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • travaillez ← rtavaillez · tarvaillez · traavillez · travailelz · travailez · travaillezz · travaillze · travalilez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "travaillées" and "travaillez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "travaillées" is an adjective and "travaillez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "travaillées" or "travaillez"?
"travaillez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,253 in our French list, against #25,157 for "travaillées". 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 "travaillez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #233,313 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "travaillées" and "travaillez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "travaillées 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 #233,313 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