touched
/tʌt͡ʃt/
"touched" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“touched” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #4,341. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,341
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Emotionally moved (by), made to feel emotion (by).
Corpus desk
Index EN-touched · touched · English
touched · rank #4,341 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,341
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tiger
Nearest frequency peer: tiger (-1 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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “touched”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- talented
talented
95,663 corpus weight
- throat
throat
95,662 corpus weight
- tiger
tiger
95,661 corpus weight
- touched
touched
95,660 corpus weight
- toy
toy
95,659 corpus weight
- visits
visits
95,658 corpus weight
What this shows “touched” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | touched |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /tʌt͡ʃt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “touched”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around touched (IPA /tʌt͡ʃt/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,341 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for touched, with forms such as "otuched", "tocuhed", and "toucched". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "touchy", "touches", "tougher", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is touched, spelled T-O-U-C-H-E-D.
Definition
- 1Emotionally moved (by), made to feel emotion (by).
- 2Slightly mentally deficient; touched in the head.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how touched appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I was touched that he should remember my birthday.
"They say her Majesty is more touched about these affairs of the Chartists than anything else," said Mr Egerton.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otuched
- tocuhed
- toucched
- toucehd
- touchde
- touchedd
- touchhed
- touhced
- ttouched
- tuoched
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of touched - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "touched", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).