make love

/\ˈmeɪk lʌv\/ verb

Letters

9 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

make love is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire l’amour. Pronounced \ˈmeɪk lʌv\.

Key facts for make love
PropertyValue
Headwordmake love
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ˈmeɪk lʌv\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

make love is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for make love is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈmeɪk lʌv\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Faire l’amour.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for make love in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is make love, spelled M-A-K-E- -L-O-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faire l’amour.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "make love"?
"make love" is spelled M-A-K-E- -L-O-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈmeɪk lʌv\.
What does "make love" mean?
As a verb, "make love" means: Faire l’amour.
How do you pronounce "make love"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "make love" is \ˈmeɪk lʌv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "make love" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.