tailor-made
"tailor-made" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tailor-made” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Made by a tailor, especially if made to order; bespoke.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tailor-made · tailor-made · English
tailor-made · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" 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 | tailor-made |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tailor-made” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tailor-made is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
tailor-made doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 tailor-made, spelled T-A-I-L-O-R---M-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Made by a tailor, especially if made to order; bespoke.
- 2Perfectly appropriate to some specific occasion or purpose; made to one's specific requirements.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tailor-made appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Any local businesses looking to use rail freight now have a tailor-made facility ready and waiting.
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.