make good
"make-good" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“make good” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To achieve substantial success in life, often in business.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | make good |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “make good” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for make good is 9 letters long, classified as a verb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
make good has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 make good, spelled M-A-K-E- -G-O-O-D.
Definition
- 1To achieve substantial success in life, often in business.
- 2To complete successfully; to fulfil (a promise).
- 3To match the first player's bet with one's own, rather than dropping out.
- 4To remedy or compensate for (a defect or deficiency).
- 5To make (a surface) level or even.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “make good”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-A-K-E- -G-O-O-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.