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megajoule

noun

megajoule is spelled M-E-G-A-J-O-U-L-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, megajoule means “An SI unit of energy equal to 10⁶ joules. Symbol: MJ” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of megajoule is megajoules.

How many letters and syllables are in megajoule?

Letters9: M-E-G-A-J-O-U-L-E
In writingabout once in every 95 million words; the 313,259th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is megajoule?

Megajoule appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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).

Forms of megajoule

  • megajoules plural
  • mega-joule

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

What does megajoule mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An SI unit of energy equal to 10⁶ joules. Symbol: MJ

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

How do you abbreviate megajoule?

Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of megajoule: meg, mjoule.

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

Megajoule in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense one million joules:

LanguageWords
Frenchmégajoule
GermanMegajoule

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 megajoule come from?

From mega- + joule.

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

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