Which to use
“touchées” and “touchés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,274
- “touchées” frequency rank
- #10,089
- “touchés” frequency rank
- 25363
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | touchées | touchés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin pluriel de touché. | Masculin pluriel de touché. |
Same sound, different letters: touchées vs touchés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. touchées runs 8 letters (CVVCCVVC) against touchés's 7 (CVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - touchées and touchés
This is the hard kind. touchées and touchés 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25363, 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\. touchés is at rank #10,089, 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 25363, this pair ranks #341,303 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of touchées vs touchés
Shared letters: chostué. Private to "touchées": e. Private to "touchés": -.
"touchées" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVC · "touchés" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "touchées" / "touchés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "touchées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "touchés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #341,303 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "touchées" and "touchés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "touchais vs touchées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #341,303 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.