touchèrent
\tu.ʃɛʁ\
The verdict
“touchèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #91,238 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,238
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de toucher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-toucherent · touchèrent · French
touchèrent · rank #91,238 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,238
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tournelles
Nearest frequency peer: tournelles (+2 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « touchèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tombiez
tombiez
8,767 corpus weight
- tontine
tontine
8,766 corpus weight
- touchèrent
touchèrent
8,763 corpus weight
- tournelles
tournelles
8,761 corpus weight
- Tourtour
Tourtour
8,760 corpus weight
- transfigurée
transfigurée
8,759 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « touchèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | touchèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tu.ʃɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « touchèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
touchèrent is uncommon French at frequency #91,238 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tu.ʃɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de toucher.".
No misspelling variants are generated for touchèrent in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is touchèrent, spelled T-O-U-C-H-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de toucher.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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