megabit
/ˈmɛɡəbɪt/noun
megabit is a noun meaning “One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bits or 1,000 kilobits. Equals 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-G-A-B-I-T and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of megabit is megabits.
What does megabit mean?
noun
- 1
One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bits or 1,000 kilobits. Equals 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes).
- 2
a mebibit.
- 3
informalone megabit per second
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce megabit?
- /ˈmɛɡəbɪt/
Megabit has 3 syllables (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).
Forms of megabit
- megabits plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is megabit?
Megabit appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th 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).
How do you abbreviate megabit?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of megabit: Mbit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Megabit in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense 1,000,000 bits:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does megabit come from?
From mega- + bit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).