Makorra
Makorra is the ship name for Mako and Korra from The Legend of Korra. It is a portmanteau: built by joining a piece of one name to a piece of the other.
Engine version 1.0 · Breakdown computed from the live checker · Research Desk
Structure
mako from Mako, plus korra from Korra.
Mako coverage 100%
Korra coverage 100%
At the join, or, a vowel meets a consonant, which is the seam that most often survives being read aloud by someone seeing it for the first time.
Why this name is shaped the way it is
Ma plus korra. Korra survives whole in both of its most used ship names, which is what happens to a name that blends cleanly at its opening.
What our own engine would have built
Handed Mako and Korra with no knowledge of the fandom, the blender proposes Makrra, Korko, Marra, Korrko, Makra, Koko. Makorra is not among them. That is the normal result, and it is the clearest illustration of why this site refuses to call any candidate the best one. A community picked Makorra for reasons no software can see.
If you want to run the same check on a name of your own, the draft checker does exactly what produced the breakdown above, and the ship name generator builds candidates from two names you supply.
More from The Legend of Korra
Other portmanteaus
Questions
What does Makorra mean?
Makorra is the ship name for Mako and Korra from The Legend of Korra. A ship name is a nickname for a pairing, and shipping means wanting two characters to be together.
Who is Makorra?
Makorra is not a person. It refers to Mako and Korra as a pairing, which is how fandom communities talk about two characters together in one word.
How was Makorra formed?
By joining mako from Mako to korra from Korra. That keeps 100% of the first name and 100% of the second.