supportévssupportersWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#14,368
“supporté” frequency rank
#3,966
“supporters” frequency rank
18334
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature supporté supporters
Definition supporté par : dont le support est contenu dans. Pluriel de supporter.

Where the eye mixes supporté and supporters

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

8 ch
supporté
10 ch
supporters

Visual trap between supporté and supporters

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: supporté is \sy.pɔʁ.te\ while supporters is \sy.pɔʁ.te.ɛʁ\. 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 noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18334, 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\. supporters is at rank #3,966, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sy.pɔʁ.te.ɛʁ\.

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 18334, this pair ranks #378,857 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of supporté vs supporters

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

"supporté" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV  ·  "supporters" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • supportersspuporters · ssupporters · supoprters · suporters · supporetrs · supporrters · supporterrs · supporterss

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "supporté" and "supporters" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "supporté" is an adjective and "supporters" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "supporté" vs "supporters" - which ranks higher?
"supporters" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,966 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.

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 "supporters" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #378,857 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "supporté" and "supporters" 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 #378,857 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