Which to use
“productive” and “productives” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,447
- “productive” frequency rank
- #24,727
- “productives” frequency rank
- 41174
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | productive | productives |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de productif. | Féminin pluriel de productif. |
Same sound, different letters: productive vs productives
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. productive runs 10 letters (CCVCVCCVCV) against productives's 11 (CCVCVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - productive / productives
This is the hard kind. productive and productives are pronounced identically (\pʁɔ.dyk.tiv\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “productive” sits inside “productives”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41174, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
productive is recorded at frequency rank #16,447, classified as anadj, pronounced \pʁɔ.dyk.tiv\. productives is at rank #24,727, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pʁɔ.dyk.tiv\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 41174, this pair ranks #235,074 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of productive vs productives
Shared letters: cdeioprtuv. Private to "productive": -. Private to "productives": s.
"productive" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVCCVCV · "productives" · 11 letters · shape CCVCVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- productive ← porductive · pproductive · prdouctive · prodcutive · prodductive · producctive · producitve · productiev
- productives ← porductives · pproductives · prdouctives · prodcutives · prodductives · producctives · producitves · productievs
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "productive" and "productives" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "productive" or "productives"?
Useful next steps
"productive" and "productives" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "productive" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "productives" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #235,074 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "productive" and "productives" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "productives vs productrices". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #235,074 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.