surproduire
French, verb
surproduire is spelled S-U-R-P-R-O-D-U-I-R-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 83 million words in written French, the 285,390th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Surproduire is a French verb meaning “to overproduce” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Produire en excès”.
What does surproduire mean in English?
verb
- 1
to overproduce
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Produire en excès.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of surproduire
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- surproduisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- surproduit participle past
- surproduis first-person indicative present
- surproduisons first-person indicative plural
- surproduisez indicative plural present
- surproduisent indicative plural present
- surproduisais first-person imperfect indicative
- surproduisait imperfect indicative singular
- surproduisions first-person imperfect indicative
- surproduisiez imperfect indicative plural
- surproduisaient imperfect indicative plural
- surproduisis first-person historic indicative
- surproduisit historic indicative past
- surproduisîmes first-person historic indicative
- surproduisîtes historic indicative past
- surproduisirent historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce surproduire?
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is surproduire in French?
surproduire appears about once in every 83 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).