toucher du bois
\tu.ʃe dy bwɑ\
The verdict
“toucher du bois” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Conjurer le mauvais sort ; parfois utilisé en touchant la tête de quelqu’un, pour sous-entendre qu’il a une tête de bois.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toucher du bois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tu.ʃe dy bwɑ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “toucher du bois” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for toucher du bois is 15 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tu.ʃe dy bwɑ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Conjurer le mauvais sort ; parfois utilisé en touchant la tête de quelqu’un, pour sous-entendre qu’il a une tête de bois.".
No misspelling variants are generated for toucher du bois in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 toucher du bois, spelled T-O-U-C-H-E-R- -D-U- -B-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conjurer le mauvais sort ; parfois utilisé en touchant la tête de quelqu’un, pour sous-entendre qu’il a une tête de bois.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-O-U-C-H-E-R- -D-U- -B-O-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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