Which to use
“touchais” is a verb and “tournais” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #49,978
- “touchais” frequency rank
- #49,402
- “tournais” frequency rank
- 99380
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | touchais | tournais |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de toucher. | Relatif au Tourne, commune française située dans le département de la Gironde. |
Where the eye mixes touchais and tournais
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence.
Visual trap between touchais and tournais
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: touchais is \tu.ʃɛ\ while tournais is \tuʁ.nɛ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 99380, 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\. tournais is at rank #49,402, tagged as anadj, pronounced \tuʁ.nɛ\.
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 99380, this pair ranks #24 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of touchais vs tournais
Shared letters: aiostu. Private to "touchais": ch. Private to "tournais": nr.
"touchais" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVC · "tournais" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "touchais" and "tournais" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "touchais" vs "tournais" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "touchais" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "tournais" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #24 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "touchais" and "tournais" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "touchais vs touchants". 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 #24 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.