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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.

8 ch
touchées
7 ch
touchés

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

Is swapping "touchées" for "touchés" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\tu.ʃe\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "touchées" or "touchés"?
"touchés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,089 in our French list, against #15,274 for "touchées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list