retouchés
\ʁə.tu.ʃe\
The verdict
“retouchés” is uncommon French (frequency #76,088 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,088
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel de retoucher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retouches · retouchés · French
retouchés · rank #76,088 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,088
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retiraient
Nearest frequency peer: retiraient (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « retouchés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- renonçons
renonçons
23,918 corpus weight
- Renou
Renou
23,917 corpus weight
- retiraient
retiraient
23,914 corpus weight
- retouchés
retouchés
23,913 corpus weight
- revalorisé
revalorisé
23,912 corpus weight
- ronflant
ronflant
23,908 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « retouchés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retouchés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.tu.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « retouchés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
retouchés is uncommon French at frequency #76,088 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.tu.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel de retoucher.".
retouchés has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is retouchés, spelled R-E-T-O-U-C-H-É-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin pluriel de retoucher.
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.
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