touchais
\tu.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“touchais” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,978. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,978
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de toucher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-touchais · touchais · French
touchais · rank #49,978 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,978
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tourette
Nearest frequency peer: tourette (+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 « touchais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Tibétaine
Tibétaine
50,027 corpus weight
- tif
tif
50,026 corpus weight
- touchais
touchais
50,023 corpus weight
- tourette
tourette
50,022 corpus weight
- traduisait
traduisait
50,021 corpus weight
- trafalgar
trafalgar
50,020 corpus weight
What this shows « touchais » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | touchais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tu.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « touchais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around touchais (IPA \tu.ʃɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,978 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for touchais, with forms such as "otuchais", "tocuhais", and "toucahis". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "touchés", "touchant", "touchées", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is touchais, spelled T-O-U-C-H-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de toucher.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de toucher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how touchais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et quand j’ai posé les doigts sur les barres de métal un contact tiède et mou, plus proche du plastique que du fer, m’a étonné plus encore : j’ai tâté, forcé un peu, et réalisé que ce morceau que je touchais, là, juste à mon niveau, mais aussi en levant la tête toute la structure du pied, et à coup sûr la tour entière, était en réalité en clipo, oui en cl…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otuchais
- tocuhais
- toucahis
- toucchais
- touchaiss
- touchasi
- touchhais
- touchias
- touhcais
- ttouchais
- tuochais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of touchais - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "touchais", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).