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Which to use

“supporter” and “supportés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#3,043
“supporter” frequency rank
#34,322
“supportés” frequency rank
37365
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature supporter supportés
Definition Porter ; soutenir. Participe passé masculin pluriel de supporter.

Same sound, different letters: supporter vs supportés

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

9 ch
supporter
9 ch
supportés

Same sound, different spelling - supporter / supportés

This is the hard kind. supporter and supportés 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 37365, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

supporter is recorded at frequency rank #3,043, classified as averb, pronounced \sy.pɔʁ.te\. supportés is at rank #34,322, 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 37365, this pair ranks #262,993 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of supporter vs supportés

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

"supporter" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC  ·  "supportés" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "supporter" and "supportés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\sy.pɔʁ.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "supporter" vs "supportés" - which ranks higher?
"supporter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,043 in our French list, against #34,322 for "supportés". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

"supporter" and "supportés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "supporter" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "supportés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #262,993 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "supporter" and "supportés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "supportées vs supportés". 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 #262,993 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