supportaient

\sy.pɔʁ.tɛ\

/\sy.pɔʁ.tɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“supportaient” is uncommon French (frequency #53,650 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#53,650
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de supporter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-supportaient · supportaient · French

supportaient · rank #53,650 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #53,650
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH suppléante

Nearest frequency peer: suppléante (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « supportaient »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « supportaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for supportaient
PropertyValue
Headwordsupportaient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sy.pɔʁ.tɛ\
Letters12
Frequency rank#53,650
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « supportaient » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).supportaienttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « suppléante » (#53,649), « surnomment » (#53,651), « stratifié » (#53,647). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « supportaient » est au #53,650. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

supportaient is uncommon French at frequency #53,650 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sy.pɔʁ.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de supporter.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for supportaient, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is supportaient, spelled S-U-P-P-O-R-T-A-I-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de supporter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how supportaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La priorité chez eux était la chute de rein. Le cul quoi ! Et sur ce sujet, leur sévérité était impardonnable. Ils ne supportaient pas la moindre stéatopygie. Fusse^([sic])-t-elle légère.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "supportaient"?
"supportaient" is spelled S-U-P-P-O-R-T-A-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sy.pɔʁ.tɛ\.
What does "supportaient" mean?
As a verb, "supportaient" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de supporter.
How do you pronounce "supportaient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "supportaient" is \sy.pɔʁ.tɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "supportaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list