retouche

\ʁə.tuʃ\

/\ʁə.tuʃ\/ noun

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The verdict

“retouche” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,331. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,331
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de retoucher ou résultat de cette action.

Corpus desk

Index FR-retouche · retouche · French

retouche · rank #28,331 · 11 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,331
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH retombé

Nearest frequency peer: retombé (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « retouche »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « retouche » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

retouche vs retourne
75% similar
retouche vs retoucher
89% similar
retouche vs retouchée
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for retouche
PropertyValue
Headwordretouche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.tuʃ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#28,331
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retouche »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).retouchese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « retombé » (#28,330), « retraçant » (#28,332), « ressemblaient » (#28,329). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « retouche » est au #28,331. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around retouche (IPA \ʁə.tuʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,331 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for retouche, with forms such as "ertouche", "reotuche", and "retocuhe". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "retourne", "retoucher", "retouchée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is retouche, spelled R-E-T-O-U-C-H-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de retoucher ou résultat de cette action.
  2. 2
    Correctif destiné à corriger provisoirement un défaut dans un programme informatique existant, dans l’attente d’une nouvelle version.
  3. 3
    Résultat d'un retouchage esthétique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how retouche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. – Dans la vie, on se corrige, à ce qu’on dit, on s’améliore ; on ne peut corriger ce qu’on a fait. C’est ce droit de retouche qui fait de l’écriture une chose si grise et si… (il n’acheva pas). Oui ; c’est là ce qui me paraît si beau dans la vie ; c’est qu’il faut peindre dans le frais. La rature y est défendue.
  2. Ce gisement de plein air avait été initialement considéré comme aurignacien (Bodechon, 1982 ; Bel, 1991) sur la base d’une industrie lithique associant burins carénés et produits lamellaires, en particulier des lamelles torses à retouche abrupte directe fortement latéralisée (Le Brun-Ricalens et Brou, 2003).

This word in other languages

touch-up(English)Retusche(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ertouche
  • reotuche
  • retocuhe
  • retoucche
  • retouceh
  • retouchhe
  • retouhce
  • rettouche
  • retuoche
  • rretouche
  • rteouche

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retouche - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ertouche2reotuche2retocuhe2retoucche1retouceh2retouchhe1retouhce2rettouche1
Edit distance from "retouche"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "retouche"?
"retouche" is spelled R-E-T-O-U-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.tuʃ\.
What does "retouche" mean?
As a noun, "retouche" means: Action de retoucher ou résultat de cette action.
What words are commonly confused with "retouche"?
"retouche" is commonly confused with "retourne", "retoucher", "retouchée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "retouche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "retouche" is \ʁə.tuʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "retouche" come from?
"retouche" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "retouche", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

remontés#28,326réclamée#28,337refusera#28,323Scrabble#28,346

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

retombé11 variantssommaires11 variantsprogram11 variantsstrates11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list