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meg

/mɛɡ/noun, verb

meg is a noun meaning “Clipping of megabyte” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-G and has one syllable, and it appears 3.5 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of meg is megs.

What does meg mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Clipping of megabyte.

  2. 2

    Clipping of megahertz.

  3. 3

    Clipping of megajoule.

  4. 4

    colloquialA nutmeg.

  5. 5

    colloquialA megalodon.

  6. 6

    USobsoleteslangA dollar.

verb

  1. 1

    colloquialTo nutmeg an opponent.

noun

as Meg
  1. 1

    colloquialMegalodon.

noun

as MEG
  1. 1

    IndiaAbbreviation of Meghalaya.

  2. 2

    Abbreviation of magnetoencephalogram.

  3. 3

    Abbreviation of magnetoencephalograph.

  4. 4

    Abbreviation of magnetoencephalography.

  5. 5

    Abbreviation of monoethylene glycol.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce meg?

  • /mɛɡ/

Meg has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Meg.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-meg.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of meg

  • megs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • megging participle, present
  • megged participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is meg?

Meg appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 13,897th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does meg come from?

Clipping of words starting with mega-.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).