making
\ˈmeɪ.kɪŋ\
The verdict
“making” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #21,685 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #21,685
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Participe présent de make.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | making |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈmeɪ.kɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “making” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for making is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈmeɪ.kɪŋ\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,685 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Participe présent de make.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for making, with forms such as "amking", "maikng", and "makign". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "matin", "marin", "malin", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is making, spelled M-A-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de make.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amking,maikng,makign,makingg,makinng,makking,maknig,mkaing,mmaking
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of making - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “making”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-K-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˈmeɪ.kɪŋ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “matin” - see the side-by-side comparison. making vs matin
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.