SeppvssuppWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Sepp is a name, supp is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Sepp” is a name and “supp” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#49,939
“Sepp” frequency rank
#31,754
“supp” frequency rank
81693
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Sepp supp
Definition Prénom masculin. Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de suppen.

Letter map: Sepp vs supp

Shared letters muted; letters that set Sepp and supp apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. Sepp and supp follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
Sepp
4 ch
supp

Part-of-speech tell for Sepp / supp

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Sepp is aname and suppaverb. On the page they differ by a single letter - e in “Sepp” becomes u in “supp”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 81693, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Sepp is recorded at frequency rank #49,939, classified as aname. supp is at rank #31,754, tagged as averb, pronounced \zʊp\.

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 81693, this pair ranks #18,222 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Sepp vs supp

Shared letters: ps. Private to "Sepp": e. Private to "supp": u.

"Sepp" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "supp" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Sepp ← espp · spep · ssepp
  • supp ← spup · ssupp · uspp

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Sepp" for "supp" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Sepp" is a name and "supp" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Sepp" vs "supp" - which ranks higher?
"supp" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #31,754 in our French list, against #49,939 for "Sepp". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "Sepp" vs "supp" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Sepp" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "supp" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #18,222 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Sepp" and "supp" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "seok vs Sepp". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #18,222 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list