Which to use
“produce” and “produced” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,733
- “produce” frequency rank
- #1,436
- “produced” frequency rank
- 3169
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | produce | produced |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate. | simple past and past participle of produce |
Where the eye mixes produce and produced
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
A purely visual mix-up. produce (/pɹəˈd͡ʒuːs/) and produced (/pɹəˈd͡ʒuːst/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “produce” sits inside “produced”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 3169, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
produce is recorded at frequency rank #1,733, classified as averb, pronounced /pɹəˈd͡ʒuːs/. produced is at rank #1,436, tagged as averb, pronounced /pɹəˈd͡ʒuːst/.
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 3169, this pair ranks #522,898 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of produce vs produced
Shared letters: cdeopru. Private to "produce": -. Private to "produced": -.
"produce" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCV · "produced" · 8 letters · shape CCVCVCVC