productricevsproductricesTell them apart

Quick tell: productrice is a noun, productrices is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“productrice” is a noun and “productrices” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#18,835
“productrice” frequency rank
#40,934
“productrices” frequency rank
59769
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature productrice productrices
Definition Celle qui crée, par son travail, les produits agricoles ou industriels, par opposition à ceux qui s’en servent, qui les consomment. Féminin pluriel de producteur.

Same sound, different letters: productrice vs productrices

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. productrice runs 11 letters (CCVCVCCCVCV) against productrices's 12 (CCVCVCCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
productrice
12 ch
productrices

Same sound, different spelling - productrice / productrices

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: productrice and productrices carry the same recorded pronunciation, \pʁɔ.dyk.tʁis\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “productrice” sits inside “productrices”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59769, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

productrice is recorded at frequency rank #18,835, classified as anoun, pronounced \pʁɔ.dyk.tʁis\. productrices is at rank #40,934, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pʁɔ.dyk.tʁis\.

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 59769, this pair ranks #101,293 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of productrice vs productrices

Shared letters: cdeioprtu. Private to "productrice": -. Private to "productrices": s.

"productrice" · 11 letters · shape CCVCVCCCVCV  ·  "productrices" · 12 letters · shape CCVCVCCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • productrice ← porductrice · pproductrice · prdouctrice · prodcutrice · prodductrice · producctrice · producrtice · productirce
  • productrices ← porductrices · pproductrices · prdouctrices · prodcutrices · prodductrices · producctrices · producrtices · productirces

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "productrice" for "productrices" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "productrice" is a noun and "productrices" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "productrice" or "productrices" show up more?
"productrice" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,835 in our French list, against #40,934 for "productrices". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

"productrice" and "productrices" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "productrice" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "productrices" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #101,293 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "productrice" and "productrices" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "productrices vs protectrices". 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 #101,293 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list