make someone's day
"make-someone-s-day" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“make someone's day” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To make someone happy, or be a source of satisfaction, for the rest of the day.
Corpus desk
Index EN-make-someone-s-day · make someone's day · English
make someone's day · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-8 8 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 someone's day |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “make someone's day” in English
Rare enough to double-check
make someone's day is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To make someone happy, or be a source of satisfaction, for the rest of the day.".
make someone's day has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is make someone's day, spelled M-A-K-E- -S-O-M-E-O-N-E-'-S- -D-A-Y.
Definition
- 1To make someone happy, or be a source of satisfaction, for the rest of the day.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how make someone's day appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thank you for the unexpected gift. It really made my day.
Go ahead. Make my day.
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.