Which to use
“touchés” and “tournés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,089
- “touchés” frequency rank
- #14,572
- “tournés” frequency rank
- 24661
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | touchés | tournés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Masculin pluriel de touché. | Masculin pluriel de tourné. |
Where the eye mixes touchés and tournés
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. touchés and tournés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Why the eye confuses touchés with tournés
A purely visual mix-up. touchés (\tu.ʃe\) and tournés (\tuʁ.ne\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24661, 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\. tournés is at rank #14,572, tagged as anadj, pronounced \tuʁ.ne\.
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 24661, this pair ranks #345,340 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of touchés vs tournés
Shared letters: ostué. Private to "touchés": ch. Private to "tournés": nr.
"touchés" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC · "tournés" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "touchés" and "tournés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "touchés" or "tournés"?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "touchés" and "tournés" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "touchés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "tournés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #345,340 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "touchés" and "tournés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tournais vs tournés". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #345,340 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.