improductif
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#69,917
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
improductif is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui ne produit pas, qui ne rapporte pas. Pronounced \ɛ̃.pʁɔ.dyk.tif\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | improductif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pʁɔ.dyk.tif\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for improductif is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.pʁɔ.dyk.tif\. Corpus data places it at rank #69,917 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for improductif in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is improductif, spelled I-M-P-R-O-D-U-C-T-I-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui ne produit pas, qui ne rapporte pas.
- 2Qui ne rapporte aucun avantage sur le plan matériel.
- 3Qui ne crée plus de nouveau mot. Par exemple, en français, -ment est productif mais -aison est improductif : aujourd’hui, on ne crée plus de nouveaux mots avec celui-ci.
- 4Se dit de toute activité physiologique qui ne donne pas de résultat utile.
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Frequency rank: #69,917 in French
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