supportévssupporteraTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#14,368
“supporté” frequency rank
#43,170
“supportera” frequency rank
57538
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature supporté supportera
Definition supporté par : dont le support est contenu dans. Troisième personne du singulier du futur de supporter.

Where the eye mixes supporté and supportera

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence.

8 ch
supporté
10 ch
supportera

Look-alike desk: supporté vs supportera

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: supporté is \sy.pɔʁ.te\ while supportera is \sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 2 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57538, 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\. supportera is at rank #43,170, tagged as averb, pronounced \sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa\.

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 57538, this pair ranks #114,438 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of supporté vs supportera

Shared letters: oprstu. Private to "supporté": é. Private to "supportera": ae.

"supporté" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV  ·  "supportera" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • supporteraspuportera · ssupportera · supoprtera · suportera · supporetra · supporrtera · supportear · supporterra

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "supporté" and "supportera" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "supporté" is an adjective and "supportera" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "supporté" vs "supportera" - which ranks higher?
"supporté" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,368 in our French list, against #43,170 for "supportera". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "supporté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "supportera" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #114,438 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "supporté" and "supportera" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "supportées vs supportera". 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 #114,438 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