touchants

\tu.ʃɑ̃\

/\tu.ʃɑ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“touchants” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,076. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#47,076
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de touchant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-touchants · touchants · French

touchants · rank #47,076 · 14 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #47,076
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH torrentielles

Nearest frequency peer: torrentielles (-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 « touchants »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « touchants » 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).

touchants vs touchent
78% similar
touchants vs tournants
78% similar
touchants vs touchant
89% similar

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

Key facts for touchants
PropertyValue
Headwordtouchants
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\tu.ʃɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#47,076
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « touchants »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.touchantsse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « torrentielles » (#47,075), « tordant » (#47,074), « tranchante » (#47,078). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « touchants » est au #47,076. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around touchants (IPA \tu.ʃɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #47,076 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de touchant.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for touchants, with forms such as "otuchants", "tocuhants", and "toucahnts". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "touchent", "tournants", "touchant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is touchants, spelled T-O-U-C-H-A-N-T-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de touchant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Ses desseins à l’égard de cette enfant, qu’il décrassait, instruisait et formait avec des soins d’autant plus touchants qu’on le croyait incapable de tendresse, furent diversement interprétés par la caqueteuse bourgeoisie de la ville, dont les disettes accréditaient, comme à propos de la naissance de Max et d’Agathe, de fatales erreurs.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • otuchants
  • tocuhants
  • toucahnts
  • toucchants
  • touchannts
  • touchanst
  • touchantss
  • touchantts
  • touchatns
  • touchhants
  • touchnats
  • touhcants
  • ttouchants
  • tuochants

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of touchants - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

otuchants2tocuhants2toucahnts2toucchants1touchannts1touchanst2touchantss1touchantts1
Edit distance from "touchants"

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 "touchants"?
"touchants" is spelled T-O-U-C-H-A-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \tu.ʃɑ̃\.
What does "touchants" mean?
As an adjective, "touchants" means: Masculin pluriel de touchant.
What words are commonly confused with "touchants"?
"touchants" is commonly confused with "touchent", "tournants", "touchant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "touchants"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "touchants" is \tu.ʃɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "touchants" come from?
"touchants" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "touchants", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list