méga-octet
\me.ɡa.ɔk.tɛ\
The verdict
“méga-octet” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure de quantité d’information numérique, valant 1,048,576 (2²⁰) octets, et dont le symbole est Mo. Note d’usage : Cet usage de méga- est critiqué par le SI mais encore très fréquent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mega-octet · méga-octet · French
méga-octet · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | méga-octet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ɡa.ɔk.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « méga-octet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
méga-octet is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.ɡa.ɔk.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for méga-octet in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with 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 méga-octet, spelled M-É-G-A---O-C-T-E-T.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de quantité d’information numérique, valant 1,048,576 (2²⁰) octets, et dont le symbole est Mo. Note d’usage : Cet usage de méga- est critiqué par le SI mais encore très fréquent.
- 2Unité de mesure de quantité d’information numérique, valant 1,000,000 (10⁶) octets, et dont le symbole est Mo.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.