Which to use
“touchée” is an adjective and “toucher” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #8,629
- “touchée” frequency rank
- #2,152
- “toucher” frequency rank
- 10781
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | touchée | toucher |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de touché. | Mettre la main sur quelque chose. |
Same sound, different letters: touchée vs toucher
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Homophone desk: touchée vs toucher
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: touchée and toucher carry the same recorded pronunciation, \tu.ʃe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10781, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
touchée is recorded at frequency rank #8,629, classified as anadj, pronounced \tu.ʃe\. toucher is at rank #2,152, tagged as averb, 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 10781, this pair ranks #411,686 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of touchée vs toucher
Shared letters: cehotu. Private to "touchée": é. Private to "toucher": r.
"touchée" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVV · "toucher" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- toucher ← otucher · tocuher · touccher · toucehr · toucherr · touchher · touchre · touhcer
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "touchée" and "toucher" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "touchée" or "toucher" show up more?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "touchée" / "toucher". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "touchée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "toucher" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #411,686 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "touchée" and "toucher" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "torcher vs touchée". 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 #411,686 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.