mebibyte
/ˈmɛbɪˌbaɪt/
"mebibyte" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mebibyte” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Strictly, 2²⁰ (1024², or 1,048,576) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) kibibytes, as opposed to a megabyte.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mebibyte · mebibyte · English
mebibyte · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mebibyte |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɛbɪˌbaɪt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mebibyte” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mebibyte is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmɛbɪˌbaɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Strictly, 2²⁰ (1024², or 1,048,576) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) kibibytes, as opposed to a megabyte.".
mebibyte has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mebi- + byte. The correct English form is mebibyte, spelled M-E-B-I-B-Y-T-E.
Definition
- 1Strictly, 2²⁰ (1024², or 1,048,576) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) kibibytes, as opposed to a megabyte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mebibyte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
At a minimum, a textual (command-line) system requires 256 mebibytes of RAM and a graphical (desktop) system requires 384-512 mebibytes of RAM.
Etymology
From mebi- + byte.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.