reproduction

/\ʁə.pʁɔ.dyk.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,981

in French word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

reproduction is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action par laquelle les êtres vivants perpétuent leurs espèces. Pronounced \ʁə.pʁɔ.dyk.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #4,981 in French word frequency. Often confused with reproductions.

Key facts for reproduction
PropertyValue
Headwordreproduction
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.pʁɔ.dyk.sjɔ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#4,981
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for reproduction is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.pʁɔ.dyk.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,981 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for reproduction, with forms such as "erproduction", "reporduction", and "repproduction". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "reproductions", 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 reproduction, spelled R-E-P-R-O-D-U-C-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action par laquelle les êtres vivants perpétuent leurs espèces.
  2. 2
    Ensemble des moyens naturels et artificiels qui servent à perpétuer les espèces des plantes, à multiplier les végétaux.
  3. 3
    Action par laquelle les cellules se multiplient.
  4. 4
    Génération de nouvelles parties qui, dans certains animaux, succèdent à celles qui ont été arrachées, mutilées.
  5. 5
    Action de publier de nouveau, en parlant d’ouvrages littéraires.
  6. 6
    Copie, imitation, vulgarisation, en parlant des ouvrages artistiques.
  7. 7
    Copie d'un original par des techniques particulières.
  8. 8
    Réalisation en un ou plusieurs exemplaires, par un procédé quelconque, d’une image semblable à un modèle.
  9. 9
    Résultat de l'opération précédente.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erproduction,reporduction,repproduction,reprdouction,reprodcution,reprodduction,reproducction,reproduciton,reproductino,reproductionn,reproductoin,reproducttion,reprodutcion,reproudction,reprroduction,rerpoduction,rperoduction,rreproduction

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for reproduction

Misspelling Variants of "reproduction"

erproduction12reporduction12repproduction13reprdouction12reprodcution12reprodduction13reproducction13reproduciton12
Misspelling Variants of "reproduction"

Frequency rank: #4,981 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "reproduction"?
"reproduction" is spelled R-E-P-R-O-D-U-C-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.pʁɔ.dyk.sjɔ̃\.
What does "reproduction" mean?
As a noun, "reproduction" means: Action par laquelle les êtres vivants perpétuent leurs espèces.
What words are commonly confused with "reproduction"?
"reproduction" is commonly confused with "reproductions". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "reproduction"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "reproduction" is \ʁə.pʁɔ.dyk.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "reproduction" come from?
"reproduction" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.