ne toucher qu’avec les yeux
\nə tu.ʃe k‿a.vɛk lɛ.z‿jø\
The verdict
“ne toucher qu’avec les yeux” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 27
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Regarder sans toucher.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne toucher qu’avec les yeux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə tu.ʃe k‿a.vɛk lɛ.z‿jø\ |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne toucher qu’avec les yeux” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne toucher qu’avec les yeux is 27 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə tu.ʃe k‿a.vɛk lɛ.z‿jø\. 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: "Regarder sans toucher.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ne toucher qu’avec les yeux 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 ne toucher qu’avec les yeux, spelled N-E- -T-O-U-C-H-E-R- -Q-U-’-A-V-E-C- -L-E-S- -Y-E-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Regarder sans toucher.
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- The one correct French spelling is N-E- -T-O-U-C-H-E-R- -Q-U-’-A-V-E-C- -L-E-S- -Y-E-U-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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