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 May 6, 2026) - Made by a tailor, especially if made to order; bespoke.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tailor-made |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tailor-made” sits in English frequency
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.
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.
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Using “tailor-made”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-A-I-L-O-R---M-A-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.