touchant
\tu.ʃɑ̃\
The verdict
“touchant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,667. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,667
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui touche le cœur, qui émeut ; surtout en parlant d’émotions douces et attendrissantes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-touchant · touchant · French
touchant · rank #6,667 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,667
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH timide
Nearest frequency peer: timide (-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 « touchant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Thaïlande
Thaïlande
93,337 corpus weight
- ticket
ticket
93,336 corpus weight
- timide
timide
93,335 corpus weight
- touchant
touchant
93,334 corpus weight
- traitant
traitant
93,333 corpus weight
- tribu
tribu
93,332 corpus weight
What this shows « touchant » 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 | touchant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tu.ʃɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « touchant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around touchant (IPA \tu.ʃɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,667 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui touche le cœur, qui émeut ; surtout en parlant d’émotions douces et attendrissantes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for touchant, with forms such as "otuchant", "tocuhant", and "toucahnt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "tournant", "touchent", "touchante", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 touchant, spelled T-O-U-C-H-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui touche le cœur, qui émeut ; surtout en parlant d’émotions douces et attendrissantes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how touchant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toutes les fois qu’un Indien peau-rouge n’a pas été froissé par l’injustice, l’accueil qu’il fait à son frère blanc est un exemple touchant de cette hospitalité qu’on ne rencontre que chez les peuples sauvages.
À chaque fenêtre on aperçoit, sous les rideaux de mousseline, des fuchsias ou des géraniums cultivés dans des pots avec une touchante sollicitude.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otuchant
- tocuhant
- toucahnt
- toucchant
- touchannt
- touchantt
- touchatn
- touchhant
- touchnat
- touhcant
- ttouchant
- tuochant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of touchant - 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.
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
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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 (12 here; floor ≥5).