Which to use
“support” is a noun and “supporté” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #3,717
- “support” frequency rank
- #14,368
- “supporté” frequency rank
- 18085
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | support | supporté |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Ce qui soutient une chose, ce sur quoi elle pose. | supporté par : dont le support est contenu dans. |
Where the eye mixes support and supporté
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence.
Visual trap between support and supporté
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: support is \sy.pɔʁ\ while supporté is \sy.pɔʁ.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “support” sits inside “supporté”, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18085, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
support is recorded at frequency rank #3,717, classified as anoun, pronounced \sy.pɔʁ\. supporté is at rank #14,368, tagged as anadj, pronounced \sy.pɔʁ.te\.
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 18085, this pair ranks #380,071 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of support vs supporté
Shared letters: oprstu. Private to "support": -. Private to "supporté": é.
"support" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC · "supporté" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- support ← spuport · ssupport · supoprt · suport · supporrt · supportt · suppotr · supprot
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "support" for "supporté" ever safe?
Which is more common, "support" or "supporté"?
What to do next
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "support" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "supporté" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #380,071 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "support" and "supporté" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "supporté vs supportées". 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 #380,071 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.