juge de touche
\ʒyʒ də tuʃ\
The verdict
“juge de touche” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Arbitre présent le long de la ligne de touche, responsable de la détection des hors-jeu et des sorties de la balle hors du terrain.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | juge de touche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒyʒ də tuʃ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “juge de touche” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for juge de touche is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒyʒ də tuʃ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Arbitre présent le long de la ligne de touche, responsable de la détection des hors-jeu et des sorties de la balle hors du terrain.".
No misspelling variants are generated for juge de touche in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is juge de touche, spelled J-U-G-E- -D-E- -T-O-U-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arbitre présent le long de la ligne de touche, responsable de la détection des hors-jeu et des sorties de la balle hors du terrain.
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- The one correct French spelling is J-U-G-E- -D-E- -T-O-U-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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