megahertz
"megahertz" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“megahertz” is uncommon English (frequency #73,422 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,422
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A unit equal to one million cycles per second.
Corpus desk
Index EN-megahertz · megahertz · English
megahertz · rank #73,422 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,422
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 36,575
- PHOTO-FINISH megaman
Nearest frequency peer: megaman (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “megahertz”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Mearns
Mearns
26,581 corpus weight
- megahertz
megahertz
26,579 corpus weight
- megaman
megaman
26,578 corpus weight
- Meghna
Meghna
26,577 corpus weight
- Mellen
Mellen
26,576 corpus weight
- melty
melty
26,575 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “megahertz” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | megahertz |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “megahertz” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
megahertz is uncommon English at frequency #73,422 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A unit equal to one million cycles per second.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for megahertz in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mega- + hertz. The correct English form is megahertz, spelled M-E-G-A-H-E-R-T-Z.
Definition
- 1A unit equal to one million cycles per second.
Etymology
From mega- + hertz.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.