Which to use
“touchais” is a verb and “touchés” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #49,978
- “touchais” frequency rank
- #10,089
- “touchés” frequency rank
- 60067
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | touchais | touchés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de toucher. | Masculin pluriel de touché. |
Where the eye mixes touchais and touchés
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. touchais runs 8 letters (CVVCCVVC) against touchés's 7 (CVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between touchais and touchés
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: touchais is \tu.ʃɛ\ while touchés is \tu.ʃe\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60067, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
touchais is recorded at frequency rank #49,978, classified as averb, pronounced \tu.ʃɛ\. touchés is at rank #10,089, tagged as anadj, pronounced \tu.ʃe\.
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 60067, this pair ranks #99,629 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of touchais vs touchés
Shared letters: chostu. Private to "touchais": ai. Private to "touchés": é.
"touchais" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVC · "touchés" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- touchais ← otuchais · tocuhais · toucahis · toucchais · touchaiss · touchasi · touchhais · touchias
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "touchais" for "touchés" ever safe?
Frequency check: "touchais" vs "touchés" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "touchais" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "touchés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #99,629 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "touchais" and "touchés" 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 #99,629 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.