insupportable
\ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tabl\
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
- infini
infini
93,036 corpus weight
- instar
instar
93,035 corpus weight
- insupportab…
insupportable
93,034 corpus weight
- intrigue
intrigue
93,033 corpus weight
- Jessica
Jessica
93,032 corpus weight
- juridiction
juridiction
93,031 corpus weight
What this shows « insupportable » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | insupportable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tabl\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #6,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « insupportable »
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
- 1Qu’il est impossible ou très difficile de supporter, d’endurer.
- 2Qui est extrêmement désagréable ; exaspérant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how insupportable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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
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.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).