productif

\pʁɔ.dyk.tif\

/\pʁɔ.dyk.tif\/ adj

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The verdict

“productif” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,051. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,051
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui produit ; qui rapporte.

Corpus desk

Index FR-productif · productif · French

productif · rank #10,051 · 14 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,051
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH price

Nearest frequency peer: price (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « productif »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « productif » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

productif vs products
78% similar
productif vs production
80% similar
productif vs productive
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for productif
PropertyValue
Headwordproductif
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pʁɔ.dyk.tif\
Letters9
Frequency rank#10,051
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « productif »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.productifse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « price » (#10,050), « progressif » (#10,052), « poupée » (#10,049). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « productif » est au #10,051. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around productif (IPA \pʁɔ.dyk.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,051 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for productif, with forms such as "porductif", "pproductif", and "prdouctif". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "products", "production", "productive", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is productif, spelled P-R-O-D-U-C-T-I-F.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui produit ; qui rapporte.
  2. 2
    Qui est effectivement utilisé en pratique pour créer des nouveaux mots, par exemple en parlant d’un préfixe ou d’un suffixe, d’une figure de style…

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how productif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Sale et productif comme le commerce, ce passage, toujours plein d’allants et de venants, de charrettes, de haquets, est d’un aspect repoussant, et la population qui y grouille est en harmonie avec les choses et les lieux.
  2. Le grand-vizir s'est réservé le caïdat paternel des Glaoua et ceux, très productifs des Mesfioua et des Touggana administrés par des khalifas.

Synonyms

fécond

Antonyms

stérileimproductif

This word in other languages

productive(English)productivo(Español)produktiv(Deutsch)produtivo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • porductif
  • pproductif
  • prdouctif
  • prodcutif
  • prodductif
  • producctif
  • producitf
  • productfi
  • productiff
  • producttif
  • produtcif
  • proudctif
  • prroductif
  • rpoductif

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of productif - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

porductif2pproductif1prdouctif2prodcutif2prodductif1producctif1producitf2productfi2
Edit distance from "productif"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "productif"?
"productif" is spelled P-R-O-D-U-C-T-I-F. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.dyk.tif\.
What does "productif" mean?
As an adjective, "productif" means: Qui produit ; qui rapporte.
What words are commonly confused with "productif"?
"productif" is commonly confused with "products", "production", "productive". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "productif"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "productif" is \pʁɔ.dyk.tif\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "productif" come from?
"productif" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "productif", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

préparent#10,054partition#10,046intuition#10,020hypocrite#10,013

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

progressif14 variantsparallèles14 variantsmusculaire14 variantsexpriment14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list