supportévssupportéesWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#14,368
“supporté” frequency rank
#44,758
“supportées” frequency rank
59126
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Same sound, different letters: supporté vs supportées

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

8 ch
supporté
10 ch
supportées

Homophone desk: supporté vs supportées

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: supporté and supportées 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 2 extra letter(s) - “supporté” sits inside “supportées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59126, 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\. supportées is at rank #44,758, 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 59126, this pair ranks #104,922 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of supporté vs supportées

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

"supporté" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV  ·  "supportées" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "supporté" for "supportées" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "supporté" is an adjective and "supportées" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "supporté" or "supportées" show up more?
"supporté" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,368 in our French list, against #44,758 for "supportées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've separated the homophone pair "supporté" / "supportées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "supporté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "supportées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #104,922 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "supporté" and "supportées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "supportées vs supportera". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #104,922 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