Which to use
“touchaient” and “touchais” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #38,072
- “touchaient” frequency rank
- #49,978
- “touchais” frequency rank
- 88050
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | touchaient | touchais |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de toucher. | Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de toucher. |
Same sound, different letters: touchaient vs touchais
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - touchaient and touchais
This is the hard kind. touchaient and touchais are pronounced identically (\tu.ʃɛ\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 88050, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
touchaient is recorded at frequency rank #38,072, classified as averb, pronounced \tu.ʃɛ\. touchais is at rank #49,978, tagged as averb, pronounced \tu.ʃɛ\.
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 88050, this pair ranks #7,493 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of touchaient vs touchais
Shared letters: achiotu. Private to "touchaient": en. Private to "touchais": s.
"touchaient" · 10 letters · shape CVVCCVVVCC · "touchais" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- touchaient ← otuchaient · tocuhaient · toucahient · toucchaient · touchaeint · touchaiennt · touchaientt · touchaietn
- touchais ← otuchais · tocuhais · toucahis · toucchais · touchaiss · touchasi · touchhais · touchias
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "touchaient" and "touchais" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "touchaient" or "touchais" show up more?
What to do next
"touchaient" and "touchais" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "touchaient" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "touchais" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #7,493 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "touchaient" and "touchais" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "touchais vs tournais". 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 #7,493 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.