support
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | support |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.pɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Ce qui soutient une chose, ce sur quoi elle pose.
- 2Aide, appui, soutien moral, protection.
- 3Document sur lequel s’appuie un discours ou des explications (par exemple, un support de conférence, un support pédagogique).
- 4Figure 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.
- 5Partie des points en lesquels une fonction ne s’annule pas.
- 6Pour une fonction continue sur un espace topologique, adhérence du support en le sens précédent.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: spuport,ssupport,supoprt,suport,supporrt,supportt,suppotr,supprot,uspport
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "support"
Frequency rank: #3,717 in French
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