supports
\sy.pɔʁ\
The verdict
“supports” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,243. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,243
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de support.
Corpus desk
Index FR-supports · supports · French
supports · rank #9,243 · 11 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,243
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH store
Nearest frequency peer: store (-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 « supports »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- soumises
soumises
90,760 corpus weight
- store
store
90,759 corpus weight
- supports
supports
90,758 corpus weight
- system
system
90,757 corpus weight
- tentant
tentant
90,756 corpus weight
- tommy
tommy
90,755 corpus weight
What this shows « supports » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | supports |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.pɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « supports »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around supports (IPA \sy.pɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,243 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for supports, with forms such as "spuports", "ssupports", and "supoprts". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "supposés", "sports", "support", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is supports, spelled S-U-P-P-O-R-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de support.
- 2En termes de Blason, se dit des figures animales ou autres qui sont positionnées de part et d’autre de l’écu. Généralement ces figures vont par paires identiques (deux lions, deux colonnes, deux arbres…) mais il n’y a aucune restriction en la matière. Voir support quand il n’y a qu’une figure ou qu’on ne fait référence qu’à une en particulier. Dans le cas particulier des figures humaines (ou assimilées comme les anges), on parle plutôt de tenants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how supports appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On devine qu’il installe mentalement, les uns après les autres, tous ces accessoires sur sa « Fat Boy », juge de l’effet produit, puis redémonte l’ustensile pour tenter autre chose, une autre variante esthétique ou mécanique, des sacoches cuir ou un nouvel échappement, le guidon corne-de-buffle ou les supports de pieds façon lounge.
En échange, les comptes de la Palferine qui portaient avant que les Medici eussent des armes, d’argent à la croix fleurdelysée d’azur (la croix fut fleurdelysée par lettres patentes de Charles IX), sommé d’une couronne de comte et deux paysans pour supports, avec IN HOC SIGNO VINCIMUS pour devise, ont eu deux Charges de la Couronne et un gouvernement.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- spuports
- ssupports
- supoprts
- suports
- supporrts
- supporst
- supportss
- supportts
- suppotrs
- supprots
- uspports
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of supports - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).