Which to use
“touchés” is an adjective and “touchez” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #10,089
- “touchés” frequency rank
- #20,303
- “touchez” frequency rank
- 30392
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | touchés | touchez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Masculin pluriel de touché. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de toucher. |
Same sound, different letters: touchés vs touchez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. touchés and touchez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Ear matches; page differs - touchés and touchez
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: touchés and touchez 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30392, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
touchés is recorded at frequency rank #10,089, classified as anadj, 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 30392, this pair ranks #310,625 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of touchés vs touchez
Shared letters: chotu. Private to "touchés": sé. Private to "touchez": ez.
"touchés" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC · "touchez" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- touchez ← otuchez · tocuhez · toucchez · toucehz · touchezz · touchhez · touchze · touhcez
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "touchés" for "touchez" ever safe?
Frequency check: "touchés" vs "touchez" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "touchés" 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 #310,625 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "touchés" 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 #310,625 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.