megacity
"megacity" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“megacity” is uncommon English (frequency #97,296 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,296
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A very large city; a megalopolis.
Corpus desk
Index EN-megacity · megacity · English
megacity · rank #97,296 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,296
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Meiko
Nearest frequency peer: Meiko (+1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “megacity”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- McSweeney
McSweeney
2,708 corpus weight
- megacity
megacity
2,705 corpus weight
- Meiko
Meiko
2,704 corpus weight
- meller
meller
2,703 corpus weight
- Mencius
Mencius
2,702 corpus weight
- Mercian
Mercian
2,701 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “megacity” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | megacity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “megacity” in English
Rare enough to double-check
megacity is uncommon English at frequency #97,296 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A very large city; a megalopolis.".
No misspelling variants are generated for megacity in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mega- + city. The correct English form is megacity, spelled M-E-G-A-C-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1A very large city; a megalopolis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how megacity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Why, for instance, do water users in a megacity like Lagos not pay an extra charge to get cesspits pumped out?
For the past four decades, the world’s fastest developing delta has been the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in the province of Guangdong in southern China. The delta area in the Pearl River has been transformed from a predominantly agricultural landscape into one of the world’s largest metropolitan areas, encompassing such megacities as Guangzhou, Dongguan, Shen…
Etymology
From mega- + city.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).