making whoopee

verb

"making-whoopee" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“making whoopee” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of make whoopee

Corpus desk

Index EN-making-whoopee · making whoopee · English

making whoopee · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "M" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for making whoopee
PropertyValue
Headwordmaking whoopee
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “making whoopee” in English

making whoopeesits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

making whoopee is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of make whoopee".

No misspelling variants are generated for making whoopee in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is making whoopee, spelled M-A-K-I-N-G- -W-H-O-O-P-E-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of make whoopee

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how making whoopee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. I was making whoopee with Adrian when my dad came in. How embarrassing!

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "making whoopee"?
"making whoopee" is spelled M-A-K-I-N-G- -W-H-O-O-P-E-E.
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As a verb, "making whoopee" means: present participle and gerund of make whoopee
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list