productive

/\pʁɔ.dyk.tiv\/ adj

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#16,447

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

productive is anFrenchadj. It means: Féminin singulier de productif. Pronounced \pʁɔ.dyk.tiv\. Often confused with productrice and productives.

Key facts for productive
PropertyValue
Headwordproductive
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\pʁɔ.dyk.tiv\
Letters10
Frequency rank#16,447
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of productive in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for productive is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.dyk.tiv\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,447 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Féminin singulier de productif.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for productive, with forms such as "porductive", "pproductive", and "prdouctive". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "productrice", "productives", "productivité", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 productive, spelled P-R-O-D-U-C-T-I-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de productif.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: porductive,pproductive,prdouctive,prodcutive,prodductive,producctive,producitve,productiev,productivve,producttive,productvie,produtcive,proudctive,prroductive,rpoductive

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for productive

Misspelling Variants of "productive"

porductive10pproductive11prdouctive10prodcutive10prodductive11producctive11producitve10productiev10
Misspelling Variants of "productive"

Frequency rank: #16,447 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "productive"?
"productive" is spelled P-R-O-D-U-C-T-I-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.dyk.tiv\.
What does "productive" mean?
As an adj, "productive" means: Féminin singulier de productif.
What words are commonly confused with "productive"?
"productive" is commonly confused with "productrice", "productives", "productivité". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "productive"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "productive" is \pʁɔ.dyk.tiv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "productive" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.