support

/\sy.pɔʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,717

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

support is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui soutient une chose, ce sur quoi elle pose. Pronounced \sy.pɔʁ\. It ranks #3,717 in French word frequency. Often confused with supposé and supports.

Key facts for support
PropertyValue
Headwordsupport
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sy.pɔʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,717
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for support is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sy.pɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,717 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for support, with forms such as "spuport", "ssupport", and "supoprt". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "supposé", "supports", "supporté", and more, 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 support, spelled S-U-P-P-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ce qui soutient une chose, ce sur quoi elle pose.
  2. 2
    Aide, appui, soutien moral, protection.
  3. 3
    Document sur lequel s’appuie un discours ou des explications (par exemple, un support de conférence, un support pédagogique).
  4. 4
    Figure héraldique unique portant l’écu ou référence à une des deux figures placées de chaque côté de l’écu et utilisée comme ornement extérieur. Dans le cas d’une figure humaine, on parle plutôt de tenant. Souvent les armoiries sont dotées de deux supports identiques (notamment en héraldique britannique). Dans ce cas, voir supports.
  5. 5
    Partie des points en lesquels une fonction ne s’annule pas.
  6. 6
    Pour une fonction continue sur un espace topologique, adhérence du support en le sens précédent.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: spuport,ssupport,supoprt,suport,supporrt,supportt,suppotr,supprot,uspport

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for support

Misspelling Variants of "support"

spuport7ssupport8supoprt7suport6supporrt8supportt8suppotr7supprot7
Misspelling Variants of "support"

Frequency rank: #3,717 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "support"?
"support" is spelled S-U-P-P-O-R-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sy.pɔʁ\.
What does "support" mean?
As a noun, "support" means: Ce qui soutient une chose, ce sur quoi elle pose.
What words are commonly confused with "support"?
"support" is commonly confused with "supposé", "supports", "supporté". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "support"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "support" is \sy.pɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "support" come from?
"support" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.