touchdown

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for touchdown is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɔtʃ.dawn\. Corpus data places it at rank #38,073 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Touché : but marqué en possédant le ballon derrière la ligne d’en-but adverse. Il donne six points et le droit à une transformation.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for touchdown, with forms such as "otuchdown", "tocuhdown", and "toucchdown". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is touchdown, spelled T-O-U-C-H-D-O-W-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.