make sense
"make-sense" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“make sense” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To be sensible, coherent, reasonable.
Corpus desk
Index EN-make-sense · make sense · English
make sense · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | make sense |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “make sense” in English
Rare enough to double-check
make sense is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for make sense, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 sense, spelled M-A-K-E- -S-E-N-S-E.
Definition
- 1To be sensible, coherent, reasonable.
- 2To decipher or understand.
- 3Used to express interest or desire in something; to be pleasing or beneficial; to work, be operative, or be advantageous to.
- 4To be in the realm of the ordinary, to be not particularly developed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how make sense appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The thing doesn’t make sense to me.
Somehow the combination didn’t make sense, but Cranston took it at face value, whatever that was worth.
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.