Which to use
“touch” and “touts” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #13,080
- “touch” frequency rank
- #29,573
- “touts” frequency rank
- 42653
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | touch | touts |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Toucher (sens du). | Pluriel de tout. |
Where the eye mixes touch and touts
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Visual trap between touch and touts
A purely visual mix-up. touch (\tʌt͡ʃ\) and touts (\tu\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42653, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
touch is recorded at frequency rank #13,080, classified as anoun, pronounced \tʌt͡ʃ\. touts is at rank #29,573, tagged as anoun, pronounced \tu\.
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 42653, this pair ranks #223,988 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of touch vs touts
Shared letters: otu. Private to "touch": ch. Private to "touts": s.
"touch" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC · "touts" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "touch" and "touts" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "touch" or "touts" show up more?
After this comparison
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- Full dictionary entry for "touch" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "touts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #223,988 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "touch" and "touts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tos vs touts". Nearby pair
- 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 #223,988 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.