Which to use
“travée” and “travées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #39,074
- “travée” frequency rank
- #25,514
- “travées” frequency rank
- 64588
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | travée | travées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Entre deux poutres, espace rempli par des solives. | Pluriel de travée. |
Same sound, different letters: travée vs travées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. travée runs 6 letters (CCVCVV) against travées's 7 (CCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: travée vs travées
This is the hard kind. travée and travées are pronounced identically (\tʁa.ve\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “travée” sits inside “travées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64588, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
travée is recorded at frequency rank #39,074, classified as anoun, pronounced \tʁa.ve\. travées is at rank #25,514, tagged as anoun, pronounced \tʁa.ve\.
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 64588, this pair ranks #76,324 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of travée vs travées
Shared letters: aertvé. Private to "travée": -. Private to "travées": s.
"travée" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVV · "travées" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "travée" and "travées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "travée" vs "travées" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
"travée" and "travées" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "travée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "travées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #76,324 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "travée" and "travées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "trance vs travée". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #76,324 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.