Mpc

abbrev

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The verdict

“Mpc” is uncommon German (frequency #88,039 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#88,039
frequency rank, German
3,571
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Megaparsec, entspricht 10⁶ Parsec

Corpus desk

Index DE-mpc · Mpc · German

Mpc · rank #88,039 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #88,039
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-0 0 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,571
  • PHOTO-FINISH morsche

Nearest frequency peer: morsche (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Mpc“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Mpc“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Mpc
PropertyValue
HeadwordMpc
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAbbreviation
Letters3
Frequency rank#88,039
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Mpc“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).Mpcfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „morsche“ (#88,038), „mucks“ (#88,040), „Morgenluft“ (#88,037). Unter 3,571 „M“-Lemmata liegt „Mpc“ bei #88,039. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Mpc is uncommon German at frequency #88,039 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anabbreviation. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Megaparsec, entspricht 10⁶ Parsec".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Mpc, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Mpc, spelled M-P-C.

Definition

  1. 1
    Megaparsec, entspricht 10⁶ Parsec

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Mpc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Der sogenannte Virgohaufen mit etwa 3000 Spiralgalaxien ist von der Erde etwa 22 Mpc entfernt, der Comahaufen 120 Mpc.
  2. Die nächste größere Ansammlung von Galaxien finden wir in einer Distanz von etwa 2.5 Mpc.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Mpc"?
"Mpc" is spelled M-P-C.
What does "Mpc" mean?
As an abbreviation, "Mpc" means: Megaparsec, entspricht 10⁶ Parsec
What language does "Mpc" come from?
"Mpc" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mpc", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

mik#88,025nag#88,054MCC#88,015OKW#88,088

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list