Which to use
“intouchable” and “intouchables” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #21,364
- “intouchable” frequency rank
- #25,699
- “intouchables” frequency rank
- 47063
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | intouchable | intouchables |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui ne peut être touché, inaccessible. | Pluriel de intouchable. |
Same sound, different letters: intouchable vs intouchables
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters.
Homophone desk: intouchable vs intouchables
This is the hard kind. intouchable and intouchables are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.tu.ʃabl\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “intouchable” sits inside “intouchables”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47063, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
intouchable is recorded at frequency rank #21,364, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.tu.ʃabl\. intouchables is at rank #25,699, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.tu.ʃabl\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 47063, this pair ranks #189,935 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of intouchable vs intouchables
Shared letters: abcehilnotu. Private to "intouchable": -. Private to "intouchables": s.
"intouchable" · 11 letters · shape VCCVVCCVCCV · "intouchables" · 12 letters · shape VCCVVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- intouchable ← inntouchable · inotuchable · intocuhable · intoucahble · intoucchable · intouchabble · intouchabel · intouchablle
- intouchables ← inntouchables · inotuchables · intocuhables · intoucahbles · intoucchables · intouchabbles · intouchabels · intouchabless
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "intouchable" and "intouchables" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "intouchable" or "intouchables" show up more?
Useful next steps
"intouchable" and "intouchables" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "intouchable" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "intouchables" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #189,935 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #189,935 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.