touch: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 10 letter points · starts with T · ends with H
Meaning of touch
verb
- transitive
Primarily physical senses. To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
Example: I touched his face softly.
- transitive
Primarily physical senses. To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
Example: Sitting on the bench, the hem of her skirt touched the ground.
- intransitive
Primarily physical senses. To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
Example: They stood next to each other, their shoulders touching.
- intransitive
Primarily physical senses. To make physical contact with a thing.
Example: Please can I have a look, if I promise not to touch?
Listed forms: touches, touching, touched, toucht, glossary.
Source: Wiktionary — touch.
noun
- countable, uncountable
An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
Example: Suddenly, in the crowd, I felt a touch at my shoulder.
- countable, uncountable
The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
Example: With the lights out, she had to rely on touch to find her desk.
- countable, uncountable
The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
Example: He performed one of Ravel's piano concertos with a wonderfully light and playful touch.
- countable, uncountable
The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
Example: a heavy touch, or a light touch
Listed forms: touches.
Source: Wiktionary — touch.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for touch.
noun
the event of something coming in contact with the body
noun
the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
- sense of touch
- skin senses
- touch modality
- cutaneous senses
noun
a suggestion of some quality
noun
a distinguishing style
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is touch in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of touch
T(1) + O(1) + U(1) + C(3) + H(4) = 10 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of touch
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from touch
20 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in touch. Showing up to 24, longest first.