GWh
The verdict
“GWh” is uncommon French (frequency #72,386 among 194,371 “G” headwords), classed as a symbol. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,386
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Symbole du gigawatt-heure, unité de mesure d’énergie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | GWh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #72,386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “GWh” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
GWh is uncommon French at frequency #72,386 among 194,371 “G” headwords, classed as asymbol. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Symbole du gigawatt-heure, unité de mesure d’énergie.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for GWh, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is GWh, spelled G-W-H.
Definition
- 1Symbole du gigawatt-heure, unité de mesure d’énergie.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “GWh”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-W-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.