Which to use
“supportée” and “supporter” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #36,170
- “supportée” frequency rank
- #3,043
- “supporter” frequency rank
- 39213
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | supportée | supporter |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de supporter. | Porter ; soutenir. |
Same sound, different letters: supportée vs supporter
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - supportée and supporter
This is the hard kind. supportée and supporter are pronounced identically (\sy.pɔʁ.te\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39213, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
supportée is recorded at frequency rank #36,170, classified as averb, 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 39213, this pair ranks #249,629 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of supportée vs supporter
Shared letters: eoprstu. Private to "supportée": é. Private to "supporter": -.
"supportée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV · "supporter" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- supporter ← spuporter · ssupporter · supoprter · suporter · supporetr · supporrter · supporterr · supportre
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "supportée" for "supporter" ever safe?
Frequency check: "supportée" vs "supporter" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "supportée" 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 #249,629 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "supportée" and "supporter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "supportée 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 #249,629 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.