Which to use
“travailler” and “travaillez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #780
- “travailler” frequency rank
- #16,253
- “travaillez” frequency rank
- 17033
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | travailler | travaillez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Tourmenter ; soumettre à une gêne ; causer de la peine ; torturer psychologiquement. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de travailler. |
Same sound, different letters: travailler vs travaillez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. travailler and travaillez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CCVCVVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Ear matches; page differs - travailler and travaillez
This is the hard kind. travailler and travaillez are pronounced identically (\tʁa.va.je\) and both work as averb. 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 - r in “travailler” becomes z in “travaillez”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17033, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
travailler is recorded at frequency rank #780, classified as averb, 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 17033, this pair ranks #385,123 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of travailler vs travaillez
Shared letters: aeilrtv. Private to "travailler": -. Private to "travaillez": z.
"travailler" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVC · "travaillez" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- travailler ← rtavailler · tarvailler · traaviller · travailelr · travailer · travaillerr · travaillre · travaliler
- travaillez ← rtavaillez · tarvaillez · traavillez · travailelz · travailez · travaillezz · travaillze · travalilez
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "travailler" for "travaillez" ever safe?
Frequency check: "travailler" vs "travaillez" - which ranks higher?
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 "travailler" 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 #385,123 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "travailler" and "travaillez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "travailla vs travaillez". 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 #385,123 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.