touche-touche
\tuʃ.tuʃ\
The verdict
“touche-touche” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu d’enfants où un des participants doit toucher un de ses camarades qui devient chasseur à son tour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-touche-touche · touche-touche · French
touche-touche · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | touche-touche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tuʃ.tuʃ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « touche-touche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
touche-touche is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tuʃ.tuʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for touche-touche, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is touche-touche, spelled T-O-U-C-H-E---T-O-U-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Jeu d’enfants où un des participants doit toucher un de ses camarades qui devient chasseur à son tour.
- 2Fait d’être très rapprochés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how touche-touche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les embouteillages, les voitures font du touche-touche.
Des maisons étroites à un étage sont à touche-touche.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.