deductive
/dɪˈdʌktɪv/adjective
deductive is spelled D-E-D-U-C-T-I-V-E. The wrong spelling people search most is deducive: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 50 of all searches for the word. Deductive is an adjective meaning “Of, pertaining to, or based on deduction (process of reasoning)”.
How many letters and syllables are in deductive?
| Letters | 9: D-E-D-U-C-T-I-V-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 44,209th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, deducive, about 10 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 deductive?
Deductive is spelled D-E-D-U-C-T-I-V-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 50 of the searches for deductive 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 deductive?
Deductive appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,209th 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 deductive?
- UK /dɪˈdʌktɪv/
- /dɪˈdʊktɪv/
- US /dɪˈdʌktɪv/
Deductive 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)-Flame,_not_lame-deductive.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with deductive?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as deductive from its last stressed vowel (/ʌktɪv/):
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 deductive
- more deductive comparative
- most deductive superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does deductive mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of, pertaining to, or based on deduction (process of reasoning).
- 2
Based on inferences from general principles.
deductive system of semantics
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Deductive in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of, pertaining to, or based on deduction:
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 deductive come from?
From deduct + -ive.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).