toucher une corde sensible
\tu.ʃe yn kɔʁd sɑ̃.sibl\
The verdict
“toucher une corde sensible” 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
- 26
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante de toucher la corde sensible.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toucher une corde sensible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tu.ʃe yn kɔʁd sɑ̃.sibl\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “toucher une corde sensible” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for toucher une corde sensible is 26 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tu.ʃe yn kɔʁd sɑ̃.sibl\. 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: "Variante de toucher la corde sensible.".
No misspelling variants are generated for toucher une corde sensible 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 une corde sensible, spelled T-O-U-C-H-E-R- -U-N-E- -C-O-R-D-E- -S-E-N-S-I-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Variante de toucher la corde sensible.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-O-U-C-H-E-R- -U-N-E- -C-O-R-D-E- -S-E-N-S-I-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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