support
sup·port/səˈpoɹt/verb, noun
support is spelled S-U-P-P-O-R-T, 2 syllables: sup·port. The wrong spelling people search most is suport: about 500 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 85 of all searches for the word. Support is a verb meaning “To help keep from falling”.
How many letters and syllables are in support?
| Letters | 7: S-U-P-P-O-R-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: sup·port |
| In writing | 339 times per million words; the 274th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 5; the most searched, suport, about 500 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell support?
Support is spelled S-U-P-P-O-R-T. 5 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 45 of the searches for support in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is support?
Support appears 339 times per million words in written English, the 274th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce support?
- UK /səˈpɔːt/
- UK [səˈpʰɔːt]
- US /səˈpoɹt/
Support has 2 syllables, split sup·port in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-support.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-support.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with support?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as support from its last stressed vowel (/oɹt/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of support
- supports present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- supporting participle, present
- supported participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does support mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To help keep from falling.
Don’t move that beam! It supports the whole platform.
- 2
To back or favor a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid
I support France in the World Cup.
- 3
To provide sustenance or maintenance for; to sustain in integrity or livelihood.
Mars does not currently support human habitation.
- 4
To help, particularly financially; to subsidize.
The government supports the arts in several ways.
- 5
To provide evidence for; to lend credibility to.
The testimony is not sufficient to support the charges.
- 6
To serve, as in a customer-oriented position; to give support to.
The IT Department supports the research organization, but not the sales force.
- 7
To assist or be involved with, but not be responsible for.
I support the administrative activities of the executive branch of the organization.
- 8
To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
Sure they sell the product, but do they support it?
noun
- 1
Something which supports.
Don't move that beam! It's a support for the whole platform.
- 2
Financial or other help.
The government provides support to the arts in several ways.
- 3
Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
Sure they sell the product, but do they provide support?
- 4
in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero; the closure of that set.
- 5
A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose grade of membership in that fuzzy set is strictly greater than zero).
If the membership function of a fuzzy set is continuous, then that fuzzy set's support is an open set.
- 6
The set of all prime ideals of R such that the localization of M at the prime is nonzero, denoted operatorname SuppM
- 7
Evidence.
The new research provides further support for our theory.
- 8
Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
This game has no mouse support.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Support in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | soutenir, supporter , soutien , appui |
| German | unterstützen, stützen, halten, tragen , Support bieten, betreuen |
| Portuguese | apoiar , apoio, suporte , dar suporte , financiar |
| Spanish | apoyar, sostener, apuntalar, suportar, soportar , dar soporte |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does support come from?
From Middle English supporten, from Old French supporter, from Latin supportō.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).