touchait

\tu.ʃɛ\

/\tu.ʃɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“touchait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,839. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,839
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de toucher.

Corpus desk

Index FR-touchait · touchait · French

touchait · rank #17,839 · 11 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,839
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tricher

Nearest frequency peer: tricher (+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 « touchait »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « touchait » 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).

touchait vs touchant
88% similar
touchait vs touchent
75% similar
touchait vs tournait
75% similar

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

Key facts for touchait
PropertyValue
Headwordtouchait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\tu.ʃɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#17,839
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « touchait »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).touchaitse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « tricher » (#17,840), « tentés » (#17,837), « troublant » (#17,841). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « touchait » est au #17,839. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around touchait (IPA \tu.ʃɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,839 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de toucher.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for touchait, with forms such as "otuchait", "tocuhait", and "toucahit". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "touchant", "touchent", "tournait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is touchait, spelled T-O-U-C-H-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de toucher.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Que ce jeu décidé par Basilia comportât mort d’homme, ne les touchait en aucune façon.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • otuchait
  • tocuhait
  • toucahit
  • toucchait
  • touchaitt
  • touchati
  • touchhait
  • touchiat
  • touhcait
  • ttouchait
  • tuochait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of touchait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

otuchait2tocuhait2toucahit2toucchait1touchaitt1touchati2touchhait1touchiat2
Edit distance from "touchait"

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 "touchait"?
"touchait" is spelled T-O-U-C-H-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \tu.ʃɛ\.
What does "touchait" mean?
As a verb, "touchait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de toucher.
What words are commonly confused with "touchait"?
"touchait" is commonly confused with "touchant", "touchent", "tournait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "touchait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "touchait" is \tu.ʃɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "touchait" come from?
"touchait" 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 "touchait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

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Similar misspelling depth

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

tricher11 variantsversets11 variantsvolcans11 variantsalentour11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list