supportable
\sy.pɔʁ.tabl\
The verdict
“supportable” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #23,703 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #23,703
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui est tolérable, qu’on peut supporter,
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | supportable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sy.pɔʁ.tabl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #23,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “supportable” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for supportable is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sy.pɔʁ.tabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,703 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for supportable, with forms such as "spuportable", "ssupportable", and "supoprtable". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is supportable, spelled S-U-P-P-O-R-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est tolérable, qu’on peut supporter,
- 2Qui est excusable, qu’on peut tolérer, admettre.
- 3L’IA arrive, et brusquement, ce qui était supportable, acceptable, toléré, ne l’est plus. — (Julien Ricciarelli-Bonnal, « Pourquoi ma tribune sur l’IA a déclenché une tempête, et ce que cela révèle vraiment de notre rapport au travail », journaldunet.com, 19 décembre 2025 ; page consultée le 9 janvier 2026)
- 4D’un jeune homme à un vieillard, un tel procédé n’est pas supportable.
- 5Cela n’est pas supportable pour un homme de son âge.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: spuportable,ssupportable,supoprtable,suportable,supporatble,supporrtable,supportabble,supportabel,supportablle,supportalbe,supportbale,supporttable,suppotrable,supprotable,uspportable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of supportable - 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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Using “supportable”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-U-P-P-O-R-T-A-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sy.pɔʁ.tabl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.