making

Other forms of making

plural

makings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about making

What does making mean?

making means "the act that results in something coming to be". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in making?

making has 2 syllables: ma-king. The stress falls on "ma". In IPA it is /ˈmeɪkɪŋ/.

What is another word for making?

Close synonyms include devising, fashioning, qualification. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is making a common word?

making is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with making?

8 words rhyme with making. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.