supportait

\sy.pɔʁ.tɛ\

/\sy.pɔʁ.tɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“supportait” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,366. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,366
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-supportait · supportait · French

supportait · rank #28,366 · 13 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,366
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH superposés

Nearest frequency peer: superposés (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « supportait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « supportait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

supportait vs supposait
80% similar
supportait vs supportent
80% similar
supportait vs supportant
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for supportait
PropertyValue
Headwordsupportait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sy.pɔʁ.tɛ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#28,366
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « supportait »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.supportaitse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « superposés » (#28,365), « survenues » (#28,367), « sunny » (#28,364). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « supportait » est au #28,366. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around supportait (IPA \sy.pɔʁ.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,366 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de supporter.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for supportait, with forms such as "spuportait", "ssupportait", and "supoprtait". 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. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "supposait", "supportent", "supportant", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is supportait, spelled S-U-P-P-O-R-T-A-I-T.

Definition

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

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Elle ne supportait pas qu’on la soupçonnât de mentir.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • spuportait
  • ssupportait
  • supoprtait
  • suportait
  • supporatit
  • supporrtait
  • supportaitt
  • supportati
  • supportiat
  • supporttait
  • suppotrait
  • supprotait
  • uspportait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of supportait - 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.

spuportait2ssupportait1supoprtait2suportait1supporatit2supporrtait1supportaitt1supportati2
Edit distance from "supportait"

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 "supportait"?
"supportait" is spelled S-U-P-P-O-R-T-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sy.pɔʁ.tɛ\.
What does "supportait" mean?
As a verb, "supportait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de supporter.
What words are commonly confused with "supportait"?
"supportait" is commonly confused with "supposait", "supportent", "supportant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "supportait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "supportait" is \sy.pɔʁ.tɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "supportait" come from?
"supportait" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list