decision-making

noun

"decision-making" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“decision-making” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
15
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of decision making.

Corpus desk

Index EN-decision-making · decision-making · English

decision-making · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 15 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "D" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for decision-making
PropertyValue
Headworddecision-making
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “decision-making” in English

decision-makingsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

decision-making is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of decision making.".

decision-making has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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. The correct English form is decision-making, spelled D-E-C-I-S-I-O-N---M-A-K-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Alternative form of decision making.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how decision-making appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. But what if Google's biggest problem isn't a lack of flexibility or the speed of its decision-making, but a fundamental cultural inability to create new lines of business that can keep the company growing? What if it's just a gargantuan one-trick pony?
  2. The projects, which are due to start in November, are: [...] Rail performance modelling for strategic decision-making - [...]

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "decision-making"?
"decision-making" is spelled D-E-C-I-S-I-O-N---M-A-K-I-N-G.
What does "decision-making" mean?
As a noun, "decision-making" means: Alternative form of decision making.
What language does "decision-making" come from?
"decision-making" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list