supportévssupportéeWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: supporté is a adjective, supportée is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“supporté” is an adjective and “supportée” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#14,368
“supporté” frequency rank
#36,170
“supportée” frequency rank
50538
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature supporté supportée
Definition supporté par : dont le support est contenu dans. Participe passé féminin singulier de supporter.

Same sound, different letters: supporté vs supportée

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.

8 ch
supporté
9 ch
supportée

Same sound, different spelling - supporté / supportée

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: supporté and supportée carry the same recorded pronunciation, \sy.pɔʁ.te\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “supporté” sits inside “supportée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50538, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

supporté is recorded at frequency rank #14,368, classified as anadj, pronounced \sy.pɔʁ.te\. supportée is at rank #36,170, tagged as averb, 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 50538, this pair ranks #161,877 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of supporté vs supportée

Shared letters: oprstué. Private to "supporté": -. Private to "supportée": e.

"supporté" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV  ·  "supportée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "supporté" and "supportée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "supporté" is an adjective and "supportée" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "supporté" vs "supportée" - which ranks higher?
"supporté" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,368 in our French list, against #36,170 for "supportée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "supporté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "supportée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #161,877 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "supporté" and "supportée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "supportée vs supportées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #161,877 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