Which to use
“touchées” is an adjective and “toucher” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #15,274
- “touchées” frequency rank
- #2,152
- “toucher” frequency rank
- 17426
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | touchées | toucher |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin pluriel de touché. | Mettre la main sur quelque chose. |
Same sound, different letters: touchées vs toucher
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. touchées runs 8 letters (CVVCCVVC) against toucher's 7 (CVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - touchées / toucher
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: touchées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17426, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
touchées is recorded at frequency rank #15,274, 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 17426, this pair ranks #383,225 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of touchées vs toucher
Shared letters: cehotu. Private to "touchées": sé. Private to "toucher": r.
"touchées" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVC · "toucher" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- toucher ← otucher · tocuher · touccher · toucehr · toucherr · touchher · touchre · touhcer
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "touchées" 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 #383,225 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "touchées" and "toucher" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "touchais vs touchées". 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 #383,225 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.