traversvsTravisWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: travers is a noun, Travis is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“travers” is a noun and “Travis” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#730
“travers” frequency rank
#15,527
“Travis” frequency rank
16257
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature travers Travis
Definition Étendue d’un corps considéré dans sa largeur. Nom de famille.

Letter map: travers vs Travis

Shared letters muted; letters that set travers and Travis apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

7 ch
travers
6 ch
Travis

Part-of-speech tell for travers / Travis

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: travers is anoun and Travisaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16257, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

travers is recorded at frequency rank #730, classified as anoun, pronounced \tʁa.vɛʁ\. Travis is at rank #15,527, tagged as aname.

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 16257, this pair ranks #388,672 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of travers vs Travis

Shared letters: arstv. Private to "travers": e. Private to "Travis": i.

"travers" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCC  ·  "Travis" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • traversrtavers · tarvers · traevrs · traverrs · traverss · travesr · travres · travvers
  • Travisrtavis · tarvis · traivs · traviss · travsi · travvis · trravis · trvais

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "travers" and "Travis" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "travers" is a noun and "Travis" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "travers" vs "Travis" - which ranks higher?
"travers" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #730 in our French list, against #15,527 for "Travis". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "travers" and "Travis".

  • Full dictionary entry for "travers" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Travis" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #388,672 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "travers" and "Travis" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Travis vs Trévise". 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 #388,672 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