megawatt
"megawatt" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“megawatt” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #42,771. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,771
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One million (1 000 000) watts, an amount of power large enough to power such things as an entire commercial building or a small passenger aircraft. (Consuming 1 megawatt during a duration of 1 hour...
Corpus desk
Index EN-megawatt · megawatt · English
megawatt · rank #42,771 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,771
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mec
Nearest frequency peer: mec (-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 “megawatt”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Mathers
Mathers
57,234 corpus weight
- McHale
McHale
57,233 corpus weight
- mec
mec
57,231 corpus weight
- megawatt
megawatt
57,230 corpus weight
- Mesozoic
Mesozoic
57,228 corpus weight
- Midlothian
Midlothian
57,226 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “megawatt” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | megawatt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “megawatt” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around megawatt, anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,771 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "One million (1 000 000) watts, an amount of power large enough to power such things as an entire commercial building or a small passenger aircraft. (Consuming 1 megawatt during a duration of 1 hour...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for megawatt, with forms such as "emgawatt", "meagwatt", and "megaawtt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mega- + watt. The correct English form is megawatt, spelled M-E-G-A-W-A-T-T.
Definition
- 1One million (1 000 000) watts, an amount of power large enough to power such things as an entire commercial building or a small passenger aircraft. (Consuming 1 megawatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 megawatt-hour of energy.)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how megawatt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Holonyms: GW, gigawatt < TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt
Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt < kW, kilowatt
Etymology
From mega- + watt.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emgawatt
- meagwatt
- megaawtt
- megawat
- megawtat
- megawwatt
- meggawatt
- megwaatt
- mgeawatt
- mmegawatt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of megawatt - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
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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.