touché
Portuguese, interjection/tuˈʃe/
touché is spelled T-O-U-C-H-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 86,274th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Touché is a Portuguese interjection meaning “touché” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “usado como um reconhecimento de um golpe, dito pelo esgrimista que foi golpeado”.
What does touché mean in English?
interjection
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touché
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
interjection: 1. usado como um reconhecimento de um golpe, dito pelo esgrimista que foi golpeado 2. reconhecimento de que num debate o interlocutor apresentou um argumento convincente
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of touché
- touché! canonical
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce touché?
- Brazil /tuˈʃe/
- Portugal /tuˈʃe/
- Portugal /tuˈʃɛ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to touché
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is touché in Portuguese?
touché appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).