Which to use
“touché” and “touchée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,601
- “touché” frequency rank
- #8,629
- “touchée” frequency rank
- 11230
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | touché | touchée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Ému par quelque chose. | Féminin singulier de touché. |
Same sound, different letters: touché vs touchée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - touché / touchée
This is the hard kind. touché and touchée are pronounced identically (\tu.ʃe\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “touché” sits inside “touchée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11230, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
touché is recorded at frequency rank #2,601, classified as anadj, pronounced \tu.ʃe\. touchée is at rank #8,629, 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 11230, this pair ranks #409,929 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of touché vs touchée
Shared letters: chotué. Private to "touché": -. Private to "touchée": e.
"touché" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV · "touchée" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVV
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "touché" and "touchée" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "touché" or "touchée"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "touché" / "touchée". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "touché" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "touchée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #409,929 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "touché" and "touchée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "torcher vs touchée". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #409,929 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.