📖 To create stories ✍️ To form letters ✉️ To send a message 💻 To code 🎼 To compose music

to write

379 6.9

Create music such as a song or symphony

verb
/raɪt/

: componer

Let me tell you, writing music has been very therapeutic.
write music

I'm not maestro, but I play well enough to write songs.

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Examples

Do you write any of your own songs?

Americana (2025)
I know that I want to write music about my pain.

Tim Ferriss
In fact, I wanna write a whole piece of music with nothing but D-Naturals.

Blood Hook (1987)
I may sit back down and write myself a song called "Flight of the Lear Jet."

Fiction book (1991)
I spent three years of my life traveling with Russian hobos on the back of a cargo train and I wrote this song.

Tiny Cinema (2022)
I'm sitting poolside and I'm trying to write the next song about teen angst.
I enjoy the process of writing music that resonates with people's emotions.
After years of practice, she finally learned how to write beautiful melodies.
He sat at the piano, dreaming of how to write an unforgettable song.

Synonyms

to create

vsto write

638 3.4

To make things like paintings, music, or stories for enjoyment

focuses narrowly on producing musical works rather than broad creative activity

to compose

vsto write

102 3.5

To make writing, music, or a plan

is limited to producing musical pieces rather than other works

Idioms

to write the book on

6 7.6

To be the leading expert on a subject

to write one's own ticket

Informal

5 7.7

To be able to choose your own job or future because you are successful

to write home about

Informal

1 7.3

To be good or special enough to tell people at home about

to write checks you can't cash

Informal

1 9.5

To promise something you cannot do

to write for the drawer

Informal

9.4

Make stories or poems and keep them private, not share them

Phrasal Verbs

to write about

620 2.1

Give details in words about a topic, for example in a book or article

to write down

214 1.1

Put information on paper to help you remember it later

to write in

54 4.2

Send a message to a radio show to say what you think

to write up

38 3.5

Put information into a complete report

to write on

34 3.6

To produce texts like articles or books about a subject

to write off

Specialized

27 4.8

To cancel a debt or reduce an asset's value in accounts

to write out

25 2.4

Put all the details on a form or paper

to write off

23 4.8

To accept that something cannot be fixed or is not worth more attention

to write up

Literature

14 4.3

Make a report about someone that appears in news or an official file

to write in

8 6.3

Add the name of a person not on the ballot as your vote

to write itself

Informal

8 5.2

To develop easily and naturally without much effort

to write off

Informal

3 4.1

To put words down quickly without much thought

to write copy

Jargon

2 4.4

To make short text for ads and marketing

Compounds

write-up

Literature

21 3.9

A short article that describes an event, often in a newspaper or magazine

write-in

18 7.0

A vote for a person whose name the voter adds to the ballot

write-off

Specialized

17 5.7

Removing the value of a debt or asset from accounts when it cannot be paid

tax write-off

6 3.8

An amount you can subtract from your income to reduce the tax you pay

write-in candidate

5 6.9

A person not on the ballot who people choose by writing their name

write-down

Specialized

4 6.4

A reduction in the value of something a company owns to show it is now worth less

compact disc write-once

Specialized

6.5

A CD you can record on once and then only read

How Developed

score

Specialized

331 6.5

to write

379 6.9

to sketch

45 3.0

to improvise

141 4.0

Surface Forms

write infinitive

writing present participle

writes third person singular

wrote past

written past participle

Etymology

Write comes from an old English word writan meaning 'to scratch' or 'to draw lines'. Composers 'write' music because they put notes and marks on paper in a score, so writing music is the same idea of making marks that hold sound.