supporting
sup·port·ing/səˈpɔɹtɪŋ/adjective, noun, verb
supporting is spelled S-U-P-P-O-R-T-I-N-G, 3 syllables: sup·port·ing. The wrong spelling people search most is suporting: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 33 of all searches for the word. Supporting is an adjective meaning “That supports”.
How many letters and syllables are in supporting?
| Letters | 10: S-U-P-P-O-R-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: sup·port·ing |
| In writing | 51 times per million words; the 1,993rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, suporting, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell supporting?
Supporting is spelled S-U-P-P-O-R-T-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 33 of the searches for supporting 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 supporting?
Supporting appears 51 times per million words in written English, the 1,993rd 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 supporting?
- US /səˈpɔɹtɪŋ/
- UK /səˈpɔːtɪŋ/
- /səˈpo(ː)ɹtɪŋ/
Supporting has 3 syllables, split sup·port·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-supporting.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of supporting
- more supporting comparative
- most supporting superlative
- supportings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does supporting mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
That supports.
noun
- 1
That which supports something else; a support.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of support
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Supporting in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense that supports:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | soportador, soportante, suportante |
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.