suppôt
\sy.po\
The verdict
“suppôt” is uncommon French (frequency #71,939 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,939
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui était attaché à un corps, à une compagnie, et qui remplissait certaines fonctions pour le service de ce corps, de cette compagnie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suppot · suppôt · French
suppôt · rank #71,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,939
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sumac
Nearest frequency peer: sumac (-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 « suppôt »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- suiviez
suiviez
28,065 corpus weight
- sumac
sumac
28,063 corpus weight
- suppôt
suppôt
28,062 corpus weight
- surent
surent
28,061 corpus weight
- surprenait
surprenait
28,060 corpus weight
- survolté
survolté
28,059 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « suppôt » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suppôt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.po\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « suppôt » en français
Rare enough to double-check
suppôt is uncommon French at frequency #71,939 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.po\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for suppôt in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is suppôt, spelled S-U-P-P-Ô-T.
Definition
- 1Celui qui était attaché à un corps, à une compagnie, et qui remplissait certaines fonctions pour le service de ce corps, de cette compagnie.
- 2Celui qui est fauteur et partisan de quelqu’un dans le mal, qui sert aux mauvais desseins d’un autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how suppôt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Anciennement les imprimeurs et les libraires étaient suppôts de l’Université.
[…] puisque son mari est un produit inutilisable de la culture bourgeoise et même un suppôt du régime capitaliste […].
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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