Which to use
“insupportable” and “insupportables” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,967
- “insupportable” frequency rank
- #21,667
- “insupportables” frequency rank
- 28634
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | insupportable | insupportables |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qu’il est impossible ou très difficile de supporter, d’endurer. | Pluriel de insupportable. |
Where the spellings diverge
Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set insupportable and insupportables apart are highlighted. They share 13 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
This is the hard kind. insupportable and insupportables are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tabl\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “insupportable” sits inside “insupportables”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28634, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
insupportable is recorded at frequency rank #6,967, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tabl\. insupportables is at rank #21,667, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tabl\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 28634, this pair ranks #321,607 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of insupportable vs insupportables
Shared letters: abeilnoprstu. Private to "insupportable": -. Private to "insupportables": -.
"insupportable" · 13 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVCCV · "insupportables" · 14 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- insupportable ← innsupportable · inspuportable · inssupportable · insupoprtable · insuportable · insupporatble · insupporrtable · insupportabble
- insupportables ← innsupportables · inspuportables · inssupportables · insupoprtables · insuportables · insupporatbles · insupporrtables · insupportabbles