touchésvstouchezConfusable pair

Quick tell: touchés is a adjective, touchez is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

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.

7 ch
touchés
7 ch
touchez

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?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "touchés" is an adjective and "touchez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "touchés" vs "touchez" - which ranks higher?
"touchés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,089 in our French list, against #20,303 for "touchez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list