suportadovssuportarWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#28,791
“suportado” frequency rank
#5,469
“suportar” frequency rank
34260
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature suportado suportar
Definition aguentado resistir; manter sobre si algo sem ceder

Letter map: suportado vs suportar

Shared letters muted; letters that set suportado and suportar apart highlighted. Shared run: 7. suportado runs 9 letters (CVCVCCVCV) against suportar's 8 (CVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
suportado
8 ch
suportar

Grammar separator: suportado vs suportar

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: suportado is anadjective and suportaraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34260, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

suportado is recorded at frequency rank #28,791, classified as anadj. suportar is at rank #5,469, tagged as averb, pronounced /su.puɾ.ˈtaɾ/.

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 34260, this pair ranks #33,063 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of suportado vs suportar

Shared letters: aoprstu. Private to "suportado": d. Private to "suportar": -.

"suportado" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCV  ·  "suportar" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • suportado ← spuortado · ssuportado · suoprtado · suporatdo · suporrtado · suportaddo · suportaod · suportdao
  • suportar ← spuortar · ssuportar · suoprtar · suporatr · suporrtar · suportarr · suportra · suporttar

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "suportado" and "suportar" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "suportado" is an adjective and "suportar" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "suportado" vs "suportar" - which ranks higher?
"suportar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,469 in our Portuguese list, against #28,791 for "suportado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "suportado" vs "suportar" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "suportado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "suportar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #33,063 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "suportado" and "suportar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "subornar vs suportar". 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 #33,063 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list