Made or maid?
made is a verb meaning “simple past and past participle of make”; maid is a noun meaning “An adult or adolescent female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant). (In…”. They sound the same (/meɪd/). In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) made is about 115 times as common as maid.
What is the difference between made and maid?
| made | maid | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun, verb | noun, verb |
| Meaning | An adult or adolescent female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant). (In feudal times this could be anyone from a high-ranking assistant to a low-ranking… | |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | none | maids |
| Pronunciation | /meɪd/ /med/ /meːd/ | /meɪd/ /med/ /meid/ |
| In writing | 832 times per million words | 7.2 times per million words |
Sources: made and maid in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of made and maid
maid
- 1
datedA girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden
- 2
CanadaUSAcronym of medical assistance in dying
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CanadaAlternative form of MAID (“medical assistance in dying”)
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An adult or adolescent female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant). (In feudal times this could be anyone from a high-ranking assistant to a low-ranking cleaner.)
- 5
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Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, made or maid?
made appears 832 times per million words; maid 7.2 times per million words.
made 832 times per million wordsmaid 7.2 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search made vs maid?
“made vs maid” is searched about 30 times a month on Google and 10 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“maid vs made”, “made or maid”).
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