tactile
French, adjective/tak.til/
tactile is spelled T-A-C-T-I-L-E (7 letters) and appears 2.9 times per million words in written French, the 16,327th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tactile is a French adjective meaning “tactile” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Que l’on peut toucher ; qui est ou peut être l’objet du tact”.
What does tactile mean in English?
adjective
- 1
tactile
- 2
haptic
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Que l’on peut toucher ; qui est ou peut être l’objet du tact. 2. Qui concerne le tact ou le toucher. 3. Qui réagit au contact d’un doigt. 4. Qui aime toucher son entourage.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tactile
- tactiles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tactile?
- /tak.til/
- \tak.til\
- [t̪ak.t̪il̪]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tactile
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tactile in French?
tactile appears 2.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).