insupportable

\ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tabl\

/\ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tabl\/ adj

The verdict

“insupportable” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,967. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,967
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
18
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qu’il est impossible ou très difficile de supporter, d’endurer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-insupportable · insupportable · French

insupportable · rank #6,967 · 18 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,967
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 18 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH instar

Nearest frequency peer: instar (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « insupportable »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « insupportable » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

insupportable vs insupportables
93% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for insupportable
PropertyValue
Headwordinsupportable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tabl\
Letters13
Frequency rank#6,967
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « insupportable »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).insupportablese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « instar » (#6,966), « intrigue » (#6,968), « infini » (#6,965). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « insupportable » est au #6,967. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around insupportable (IPA \ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,967 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for insupportable, with forms such as "innsupportable", "inspuportable", and "inssupportable". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "insupportables", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is insupportable, spelled I-N-S-U-P-P-O-R-T-A-B-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qu’il est impossible ou très difficile de supporter, d’endurer.
  2. 2
    Qui est extrêmement désagréable ; exaspérant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how insupportable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Victime d’un ostracisme qui lui rendait l’existence insupportable, la petite fille, sur le chemin du retour, ne parvenait pas à se décider si elle se jetterait dans la grande « boutasse » des Thiollière ou si elle se pendrait au hêtre qui marquait une limite du domaine paternel.
  2. Mais qu'à l'époque tu étais maladivement pudibond. Inconcevable l'idée de comparaître tout nu sous les yeux du conseil de révision. Inimaginable, pour toi, l'idée de te faire examiner. Reluquer. Palper. Insupportable.

Synonyms

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • innsupportable
  • inspuportable
  • inssupportable
  • insupoprtable
  • insuportable
  • insupporatble
  • insupporrtable
  • insupportabble
  • insupportabel
  • insupportablle
  • insupportalbe
  • insupportbale
  • insupporttable
  • insuppotrable
  • insupprotable
  • inuspportable
  • isnupportable
  • nisupportable

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of insupportable - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

innsupportable1inspuportable2inssupportable1insupoprtable2insuportable1insupporatble2insupporrtable1insupportabble1
Edit distance from "insupportable"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "insupportable"?
"insupportable" is spelled I-N-S-U-P-P-O-R-T-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tabl\.
What does "insupportable" mean?
As an adjective, "insupportable" means: Qu’il est impossible ou très difficile de supporter, d’endurer.
What words are commonly confused with "insupportable"?
"insupportable" is commonly confused with "insupportables". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "insupportable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "insupportable" is \ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "insupportable" come from?
"insupportable" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "insupportable", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list