touché
/ˈtuː.ʃeɪ/
"touche" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“touché” is uncommon English (frequency #55,815 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,815
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An acknowledgement of a hit.
Corpus desk
Index EN-touche · touché · English
touché · rank #55,815 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,815
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 27,828
- PHOTO-FINISH TPM
Nearest frequency peer: TPM (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “touché”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- tiramisu
tiramisu
44,191 corpus weight
- TnC
TnC
44,190 corpus weight
- TNG
TNG
44,189 corpus weight
- touché
touché
44,186 corpus weight
- TPM
TPM
44,184 corpus weight
- trainspotti…
trainspotting
44,182 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “touché” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | touché |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ˈtuː.ʃeɪ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “touché” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
touché is uncommon English at frequency #55,815 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /ˈtuː.ʃeɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for touché, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French touché, past participle of toucher (“to touch”). More at touch. The correct English form is touché, spelled T-O-U-C-H-É.
Definition
- 1An acknowledgement of a hit.
- 2An acknowledgement of the validity, appropriateness, or superiority of an opponent's argument or statement in a discussion.
Etymology
Borrowed from French touché, past participle of toucher (“to touch”). More at touch.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.