supportévssupporterTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#14,368
“supporté” frequency rank
#3,043
“supporter” frequency rank
17411
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature supporté supporter
Definition supporté par : dont le support est contenu dans. Porter ; soutenir.

Same sound, different letters: supporté vs supporter

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.

8 ch
supporté
9 ch
supporter

Ear matches; page differs - supporté and supporter

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: supporté and supporter 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17411, 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\. supporter is at rank #3,043, 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 17411, this pair ranks #383,302 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of supporté vs supporter

Shared letters: oprstu. Private to "supporté": é. Private to "supporter": e.

"supporté" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV  ·  "supporter" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • supporterspuporter · ssupporter · supoprter · suporter · supporetr · supporrter · supporterr · supportre

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "supporté" and "supporter" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "supporté" is an adjective and "supporter" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "supporté" vs "supporter" - which ranks higher?
"supporter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,043 in our French list, against #14,368 for "supporté". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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 "supporter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #383,302 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "supporté" and "supporter" 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 #383,302 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