travailleusevstravailleusesWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: travailleuse is a noun, travailleuses is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“travailleuse” is a noun and “travailleuses” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#31,289
“travailleuse” frequency rank
#25,513
“travailleuses” frequency rank
56802
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature travailleuse travailleuses
Definition Celle qui s’adonne au travail. Féminin pluriel de travailleur.

Same sound, different letters: travailleuse vs travailleuses

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 12 letters. travailleuse runs 12 letters (CCVCVVCCVVCV) against travailleuses's 13 (CCVCVVCCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

12 ch
travailleuse
13 ch
travailleuses

Homophone desk: travailleuse vs travailleuses

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: travailleuse and travailleuses carry the same recorded pronunciation, \tʁa.va.jøz\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “travailleuse” sits inside “travailleuses”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56802, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

travailleuse is recorded at frequency rank #31,289, classified as anoun, pronounced \tʁa.va.jøz\. travailleuses is at rank #25,513, tagged as anadj, pronounced \tʁa.va.jøz\.

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 56802, this pair ranks #118,818 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of travailleuse vs travailleuses

Shared letters: aeilrstuv. Private to "travailleuse": -. Private to "travailleuses": -.

"travailleuse" · 12 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVVCV  ·  "travailleuses" · 13 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • travailleuse ← rtavailleuse · tarvailleuse · traavilleuse · travaileluse · travaileuse · travaillesue · travailleues · travailluese
  • travailleuses ← rtavailleuses · tarvailleuses · traavilleuses · travaileluses · travaileuses · travaillesues · travailleuess · travailleusess

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "travailleuse" for "travailleuses" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "travailleuse" is a noun and "travailleuses" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "travailleuse" vs "travailleuses" - which ranks higher?
"travailleuses" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,513 in our French list, against #31,289 for "travailleuse". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"travailleuse" and "travailleuses" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "travailleuse" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "travailleuses" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #118,818 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "travailleuse" and "travailleuses" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "travaillée 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 #118,818 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