supporteur
\sy.pɔʁ.tœʁ\
The verdict
“supporteur” is uncommon French (frequency #59,665 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,665
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui soutient un concurrent ou une équipe, en particulier dans le domaine sportif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-supporteur · supporteur · French
supporteur · rank #59,665 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,665
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Suki
Nearest frequency peer: Suki (-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 « supporteur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Suki
Suki
40,337 corpus weight
- supporteur
supporteur
40,336 corpus weight
- supposerait
supposerait
40,335 corpus weight
- suspendent
suspendent
40,334 corpus weight
- sybille
sybille
40,333 corpus weight
- SZ
SZ
40,332 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « supporteur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | supporteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.pɔʁ.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « supporteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
supporteur is uncommon French at frequency #59,665 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.pɔʁ.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for supporteur, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 supporteur, spelled S-U-P-P-O-R-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui soutient un concurrent ou une équipe, en particulier dans le domaine sportif.
- 2Personne qui agit en soutien à.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how supporteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les apologistes de l’astrologie font flèche de tout bois et englobent dans leur cercle de supporteurs de nombreuses personnalités incluant Jung.
Défaite 4-1 par l’Italie en match amical mercredi, la Mannschaft n’a pas rassuré ses supporteurs à trois mois de « son » Mondial.
This word in other languages
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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