support group
"support-group" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“support group” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A group of people who informally support each other over a problem which all of its members share.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | support group |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “support group” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
support group is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A group of people who informally support each other over a problem which all of its members share.".
No misspelling variants are generated for support group in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is support group, spelled S-U-P-P-O-R-T- -G-R-O-U-P.
Definition
- 1A group of people who informally support each other over a problem which all of its members share.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “support group”
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- The one correct English spelling is S-U-P-P-O-R-T- -G-R-O-U-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.