Which to use
“toucher” and “touchez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,152
- “toucher” frequency rank
- #20,303
- “touchez” frequency rank
- 22455
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | toucher | touchez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Mettre la main sur quelque chose. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de toucher. |
Same sound, different letters: toucher vs touchez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. toucher and touchez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Same sound, different spelling - toucher / touchez
This is the hard kind. toucher and touchez are pronounced identically (\tu.ʃe\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by a single letter - r in “toucher” becomes z in “touchez”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22455, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
toucher is recorded at frequency rank #2,152, classified as averb, pronounced \tu.ʃe\. 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 22455, this pair ranks #357,884 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of toucher vs touchez
Shared letters: cehotu. Private to "toucher": r. Private to "touchez": z.
"toucher" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC · "touchez" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "toucher" and "touchez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "toucher" vs "touchez" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"toucher" and "touchez" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "toucher" 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 #357,884 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "toucher" 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 #357,884 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.