milligram
/ˈmɪlɪɡɹæm/noun
milligram is spelled M-I-L-L-I-G-R-A-M. The wrong spelling people search most is miligram: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Milligram is a noun meaning “An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻³ grams. Symbol: mg”. The plural of milligram is milligrams.
How do you spell milligram?
Milligram is spelled M-I-L-L-I-G-R-A-M. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for milligram in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does milligram mean?
noun
- 1
An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻³ grams. Symbol: mg
Holonyms: gram < kilogram < megagram < gigagram
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce milligram?
- US /ˈmɪlɪɡɹæm/
Milligram has 3 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)-Vininn126-milligram.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of milligram
- milligrams plural
- milligramme UK
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is milligram?
Milligram appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,108th 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 abbreviate milligram?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of milligram: mgrm..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Milligram in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense milligram:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | milligramme |
| German | Milligramm |
| Portuguese | miligrama |
| Spanish | miligramo |
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 milligram come from?
Borrowed from French milligramme, equivalent to milli- + gram.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).