toucher la main
\tu.ʃe la mɛ̃\
The verdict
“toucher la main” 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) — Prendre la main à quelqu’un pour le saluer, lui donner une poignée de main.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toucher la main |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tu.ʃe la mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “toucher la main” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for toucher la main is 15 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tu.ʃe la mɛ̃\. 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: "Prendre la main à quelqu’un pour le saluer, lui donner une poignée de main.".
No misspelling variants are generated for toucher la main 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 la main, spelled T-O-U-C-H-E-R- -L-A- -M-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prendre la main à quelqu’un pour le saluer, lui donner une poignée de main.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is T-O-U-C-H-E-R- -L-A- -M-A-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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