travailleravstravailleursWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: travaillera is a verb, travailleurs is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#23,716
“travaillera” frequency rank
#2,202
“travailleurs” frequency rank
25918
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature travaillera travailleurs
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du futur de travailler. Pluriel de travailleur.

Where the eye mixes travaillera and travailleurs

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 10 letters in sequence. travaillera runs 11 letters (CCVCVVCCVCV) against travailleurs's 12 (CCVCVVCCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
travaillera
12 ch
travailleurs

Visual trap between travaillera and travailleurs

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: travaillera is \tʁa.va.jə.ʁa\ while travailleurs is \tʁa.va.jœʁ\. 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 (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25918, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

travaillera is recorded at frequency rank #23,716, classified as averb, pronounced \tʁa.va.jə.ʁa\. travailleurs is at rank #2,202, tagged as anadj, pronounced \tʁa.va.jœʁ\.

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 25918, this pair ranks #338,134 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of travaillera vs travailleurs

Shared letters: aeilrtv. Private to "travaillera": -. Private to "travailleurs": su.

"travaillera" · 11 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVCV  ·  "travailleurs" · 12 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • travaillera ← rtavaillera · tarvaillera · traavillera · travailelra · travailera · travaillear · travaillerra · travaillrea
  • travailleurs ← rtavailleurs · tarvailleurs · traavilleurs · travailelurs · travaileurs · travaillerus · travailleurrs · travailleurss

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "travaillera" and "travailleurs" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "travaillera" is a verb and "travailleurs" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "travaillera" vs "travailleurs" - which ranks higher?
"travailleurs" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,202 in our French list, against #23,716 for "travaillera". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "travaillera" and "travailleurs" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "travaillera" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "travailleurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #338,134 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "travaillera" and "travailleurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "travaillera vs travaillerait". 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 #338,134 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