supportévssupportezConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#14,368
“supporté” frequency rank
#42,636
“supportez” frequency rank
57004
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature supporté supportez
Definition supporté par : dont le support est contenu dans. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de supporter.

Same sound, different letters: supporté vs supportez

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

8 ch
supporté
9 ch
supportez

Ear matches; page differs - supporté and supportez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: supporté and supportez 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 57004, 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\. supportez is at rank #42,636, 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 57004, this pair ranks #117,623 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of supporté vs supportez

Shared letters: oprstu. Private to "supporté": é. Private to "supportez": ez.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • supportezspuportez · ssupportez · supoprtez · suportez · supporetz · supporrtez · supportezz · supporttez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "supporté" and "supportez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "supporté" is an adjective and "supportez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "supporté" or "supportez"?
"supporté" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,368 in our French list, against #42,636 for "supportez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've separated the homophone pair "supporté" / "supportez". 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 "supportez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #117,623 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "supporté" and "supportez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "supportez vs supposez". 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 #117,623 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