Which to use
“touchent” and “touchez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,633
- “touchent” frequency rank
- #20,303
- “touchez” frequency rank
- 27936
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | touchent | touchez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de toucher. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de toucher. |
Where the eye mixes touchent and touchez
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. touchent runs 8 letters (CVVCCVCC) against touchez's 7 (CVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: touchent vs touchez
A purely visual mix-up. touchent (\tuʃ\) and touchez (\tu.ʃe\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27936, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
touchent is recorded at frequency rank #7,633, classified as averb, pronounced \tuʃ\. touchez is at rank #20,303, 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 27936, this pair ranks #325,849 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of touchent vs touchez
Shared letters: cehotu. Private to "touchent": n. Private to "touchez": z.
"touchent" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVCC · "touchez" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "touchent" and "touchez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "touchent" or "touchez" show up more?
What to do next
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "touchent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "touchez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #325,849 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "touchent" and "touchez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tâchez vs touchez". 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 #325,849 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.