travaillésvstravaillezWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#26,566
“travaillés” frequency rank
#16,253
“travaillez” frequency rank
42819
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature travaillés travaillez
Definition Masculin pluriel de travaillé. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de travailler.

Same sound, different letters: travaillés vs travaillez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. travaillés and travaillez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CCVCVVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

10 ch
travaillés
10 ch
travaillez

Homophone desk: travaillés vs travaillez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: travaillés 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42819, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

travaillés is recorded at frequency rank #26,566, 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 42819, this pair ranks #222,709 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of travaillés vs travaillez

Shared letters: ailrtv. Private to "travaillés": sé. Private to "travaillez": ez.

"travaillés" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVC  ·  "travaillez" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "travaillés" and "travaillez" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "travaillés" is an adjective and "travaillez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "travaillés" vs "travaillez" - which ranks higher?
"travaillez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,253 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.

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 "travaillés" 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 #222,709 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "travaillés" and "travaillez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "travaillés 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 #222,709 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