making
\ˈmeɪ.kɪŋ\
The verdict
“making” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,685. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,685
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de make.
Corpus desk
Index FR-making · making · French
making · rank #21,685 · 9 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,685
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH luz
Nearest frequency peer: luz (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « making »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lina
lina
78,320 corpus weight
- luz
luz
78,317 corpus weight
- making
making
78,316 corpus weight
- malfaiteurs
malfaiteurs
78,315 corpus weight
- malienne
malienne
78,314 corpus weight
- manipulateur
manipulateur
78,313 corpus weight
What this shows « making » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « making »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around making (IPA \ˈmeɪ.kɪŋ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,685 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).