Which to use
“touchait” is a verb and “touchants” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #17,839
- “touchait” frequency rank
- #47,076
- “touchants” frequency rank
- 64915
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | touchait | touchants |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de toucher. | Masculin pluriel de touchant. |
Where the eye mixes touchait and touchants
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence.
Visual trap between touchait and touchants
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: touchait is \tu.ʃɛ\ while touchants is \tu.ʃɑ̃\. 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 64915, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
touchait is recorded at frequency rank #17,839, classified as averb, pronounced \tu.ʃɛ\. touchants is at rank #47,076, tagged as anadj, pronounced \tu.ʃɑ̃\.
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 64915, this pair ranks #74,734 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of touchait vs touchants
Shared letters: achotu. Private to "touchait": i. Private to "touchants": ns.
"touchait" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVC · "touchants" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
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- Full dictionary entry for "touchait" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "touchants" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #74,734 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "touchait" and "touchants" 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 #74,734 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.