made
/meɪd/verb
made is spelled M-A-D-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 832 times per million words in written English, the 129th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “made vs maid” about 30 times a month (Google, United States). As a verb, made means “simple past and past participle of make” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in made?
| Letters | 4: M-A-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 832 times per million words; the 129th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is made?
Made appears 832 times per million words in written English, the 129th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce made?
- US /meɪd/
- /med/
- /meːd/
Made has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-made.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with made
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: maid (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with made?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as made from its last stressed vowel (/eɪd/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: dame, mead.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of made
- mad
- mathe
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does made mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of make
- 2
simple past and past participle of myek
- 3
simple past and past participle of mak
noun
- 1
UKobsoleteA grub or maggot.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does made come from?
From Middle English made, makede, makode (preterite) and maad, mad, maked (past participle), from Old English macode (first and third person preterite) and macod, gemacode, ġemacod (past participle), from macian (“to make”). More at make.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).