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produce

pro·duce/pɹəˈd͡ʒuːs/verb, noun

produce is spelled P-R-O-D-U-C-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables (pro·duce). It appears 60 times per million words in written English, the 1,724th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, produce means “To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in produce?

Letters7: P-R-O-D-U-C-E
Syllables2: pro·duce
In writing60 times per million words; the 1,724th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is produce?

Produce appears 60 times per million words in written English, the 1,724th 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 produce?

  • /pɹəˈd͡ʒuːs/
  • /pɹəˈdjuːs/
  • /pɹəˈdus/

As a noun (“That which is produced”): /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒuːs/, /ˈpɹɒdjuːs/, /ˈpɹoʊ.dus/.

Produce has 2 syllables, split pro·duce in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-produce.wav, En-us-produce-verb.ogg, En-au-produce.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of produce

  • produces present, singular, he/she/it
  • producing participle, present
  • produced participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does produce mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.

  2. 2

    To make or yield something.

  3. 3

    To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.

  4. 4

    To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.

  5. 5

    To extend an area, or lengthen a line.

    to produce a side of a triangle

  6. 6

    obsoleteTo draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.

  7. 7

    To alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing.

    highly produced sound

noun

  1. 1

    That which is produced.

  2. 2

    Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs, dairy products and meat; the saleable food products of farms.

  3. 3

    Offspring.

  4. 4

    AustraliaLivestock and pet food supplies.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Produce in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchproduire (to make or manufacture), produits (harvested agricultural goods collectively)
Germanproduzieren, herstellen (to make or manufacture), Obst und Gemüse, Ertrag (harvested agricultural goods collectively), vorlegen (to make available to), Produkt (that which is produced)
Portugueseproduzir (to make or manufacture), hortifrutigranjeiros, hortifrúti (harvested agricultural goods collectively), produção (that which is produced)
Spanishproducir (to make or manufacture), cosecha, productos agrícolas (harvested agricultural goods collectively), producto, producción (that which is produced), realizar (to sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc))

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 produce come from?

From Middle English produce, from Latin prōdūcō (“to lead forth”), from prō- (“forth, forward”) + dūcō (“to lead, bring”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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