insupportable

/\ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tabl\/ adj

Letters

13 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,967

in French word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

insupportable is anFrenchadj. It means: Qu’il est impossible ou très difficile de supporter, d’endurer. Pronounced \ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tabl\. It ranks #6,967 in French word frequency. Often confused with insupportables.

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

Frequency rank visualization

Position of insupportable in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for insupportable is 13 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,967 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for insupportable, with forms such as "innsupportable", "inspuportable", and "inssupportable". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "insupportables", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is insupportable, spelled I-N-S-U-P-P-O-R-T-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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

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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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for insupportable

Misspelling Variants of "insupportable"

innsupportable14inspuportable13inssupportable14insupoprtable13insuportable12insupporatble13insupporrtable14insupportabble14
Misspelling Variants of "insupportable"

Frequency rank: #6,967 in French

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 adj, "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?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.