負け
まけ · make · JLPT N3 · noun
defeat
🏳️ Sounds like make: make one mistake and take the loss
負け is the noun form of 負ける (makeru, to lose). The kanji 負 puts a person over 貝, a shell that was once used as money, so it reads as someone weighed down by a debt. Its opposite is 勝ち (kachi), a win.