supportaient
\sy.pɔʁ.tɛ\
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
- squelettiqu…
squelettiques
46,355 corpus weight
- stratifié
stratifié
46,354 corpus weight
- suppléante
suppléante
46,352 corpus weight
- supportaient
supportaient
46,351 corpus weight
- surnomment
surnomment
46,350 corpus weight
- sweats
sweats
46,348 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « supportaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | supportaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sy.pɔʁ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #53,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « supportaient » en français
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
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de supporter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how supportaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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