making
/ˈmeɪkɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.54 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "during the making of the movie"
- "As a child, he didn’t seem like a genius in the making."
- "a book that was the making of his career"
- "1981, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups - fa.human-nets, 10 May 1981 09:16-EDT, Robert Elton Maas Soon (30 years?) we'll be making complete DNA and life in reverse, growing food that only reversed creatures cn eat."
Etymology
Etymology tree Old English macung Middle English making English making From Middle English making, from Old English macung (“making”), equivalent to make + -ing. Cognate with dated Dutch making (“making”), Old High German machunga.