productivity
pro·duc·ti·vi·ty/ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/noun
productivity is spelled P-R-O-D-U-C-T-I-V-I-T-Y: 12 letters and 5 syllables (pro·duc·ti·vi·ty). It appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,595th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, productivity means “The state of being productive, fertile, or efficient” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of productivity is productivities.
How many letters and syllables are in productivity?
| Letters | 12: P-R-O-D-U-C-T-I-V-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5: pro·duc·ti·vi·ty |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,595th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 productivity?
Productivity appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,595th 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 productivity?
- UK /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/
- UK /-vɪti/
- British /ˌpɹɔdʌkˈtɪvətɪj/
Productivity has 5 syllables, split pro·duc·ti·vi·ty in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-productivity.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of productivity
- productivities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does productivity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The state of being productive, fertile, or efficient.
- 2
The rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers; those workers' degree of efficiency.
You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
- 3
The rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land.
- 4
The ability to form new words using established patterns and discrete linguistic elements, such as the derivational affixes -ness and -ity; the degree to which such formation happens.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Productivity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense state of being productive:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | productivité |
| German | Produktivität, Leistungsfähigkeit |
| Portuguese | produtividade |
| Spanish | productividad |
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.