# megawatt

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #42,771

## Definitions
1. 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 consumes 1 megawatt-hour of energy.)

## Etymology
From mega- + watt.

## Common misspellings (10)
`emgawatt`, `meagwatt`, `megaawtt`, `megawat`, `megawtat`, `megawwatt`, `meggawatt`, `megwaatt`, `mgeawatt`, `mmegawatt`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/megawatt