making
mak·ing/ˈmeɪkɪŋ/noun, verb
making is spelled M-A-K-I-N-G, 2 syllables: mak·ing. The wrong spelling people search most is makeing: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 24 of all searches for the word. Making is a noun meaning “The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction”. The plural of making is makings.
How many letters and syllables are in making?
| Letters | 6: M-A-K-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: mak·ing |
| In writing | 347 times per million words; the 263rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, makeing, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell making?
Making is spelled M-A-K-I-N-G. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 18 of the searches for making in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is making?
Making appears 347 times per million words in written English, the 263rd 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 making?
- /ˈmeɪkɪŋ/
- /ˈmɛkɪn/
- /ˈmækɪn/
Making has 2 syllables, split mak·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-making.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of making
- makings plural
- makin'
- mekin
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does making mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
during the making of the movie
- 2
Process of growth or development.
As a child, he didn’t seem like a genius in the making.
- 3
Something that causes somebody's success or progress
a book that was the making of his career
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of make
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Making in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense act – see also workmanship, construction:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Anfertigen, Anfertigung, Fabrikation, Herstellung |
| Spanish | hacimiento, facimiento (desus.), hechura, fechura (disused) |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does making come from?
From Middle English making, from Old English macung (“making”), equivalent to make + -ing. Cognate with dated Dutch making (“making”), Old High German machunga.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).