conducive
/kənˈdusɪv/adjective
conducive is spelled C-O-N-D-U-C-I-V-E. The wrong spelling people search most is condusive: about 990 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Conducive is an adjective meaning “Tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result”.
How many letters and syllables are in conducive?
| Letters | 9: C-O-N-D-U-C-I-V-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,209th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, condusive, about 990 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell conducive?
Conducive is spelled C-O-N-D-U-C-I-V-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for conducive in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is conducive?
Conducive appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,209th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce conducive?
- UK /kənˈdjuːsɪv/
- US /kənˈdusɪv/
- Australia /kənˈdjʉːsɪv/
Conducive has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-conducive.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with conducive?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as conducive from its last stressed vowel (/usɪv/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of conducive
- more conducive comparative
- most conducive superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does conducive mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result.
A small, dark kitchen is not conducive to elaborate cooking.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Conducive in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | favorable |
| German | dienlich, förderlich, zuträglich |
| Portuguese | favorável, conducente |
| Spanish | conducente, ductivo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does conducive come from?
From conduce + -ive, 1640s, from Latin condūcere, patterned after forms like conductive.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).