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mg

/meɪd͡ʒ/noun

mg is spelled M-G: 2 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,878th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, mg means “Abbreviation of meaning” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mg is mgs.

How many letters and syllables are in mg?

Letters2: M-G
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing13 times per million words; the 5,878th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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

How common is mg?

Mg appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,878th 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).

How do you pronounce mg?

  • /meɪd͡ʒ/
  • /ˈmɪlɪɡɹæm pə(ɹ)ˈsɛnt/

Mg has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-mage.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of mg

  • mgs plural

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

What does mg mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Abbreviation of meaning.

noun

as MG
  1. 1

    A sports car manufactured by Morris Garages.

  2. 2

    Initialism of machine gun.

  3. 3

    Initialism of mycotic granulomatosis.

  4. 4

    Initialism of myasthenia gravis.

adjective

as MG
  1. 1

    Initialism of machine-glazed.

noun

as Mg
  1. 1

    Abbreviation of Maung A title for males (analogous to Mr in standard English).

  2. 2

    Abbreviation of mage A gender-neutral title used instead of Mr (Mister), Mrs (Mistress), etc.

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

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