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How to spell made

Made is spelled M-A-D-E.

hear itmade/meɪd/verbSounds

What it means: To create or produce something.

In a sentence: She made a beautiful drawing of a rainbow.

Not to be confused with: maid, a different word.

Same family: make, making, maker, manufactured, produced. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Made is the past tense and past participle of the verb "make," which comes from Old English "macian," meaning to build or create. Over time, "made" also became a common adjective to describe something that is produced in a particular way, as in "hand-made" or "ready-made."

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