mégagramme
\me.ɡa.ɡʁam\
The verdict
“mégagramme” 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 masse du Système international (SI), valant 10⁶ grammes ou 10³ kilogrammes ou 1 tonne, et dont le symbole est Mg.
Corpus desk
Index FR-megagramme · mégagramme · French
mégagramme · 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 | mégagramme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ɡa.ɡʁam\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mégagramme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mégagramme is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.ɡa.ɡʁam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unité de mesure de masse du Système international (SI), valant 10⁶ grammes ou 10³ kilogrammes ou 1 tonne, et dont le symbole est Mg.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mégagramme, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mégagramme, spelled M-É-G-A-G-R-A-M-M-E.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de masse du Système international (SI), valant 10⁶ grammes ou 10³ kilogrammes ou 1 tonne, et dont le symbole est Mg.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mégagramme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans toutes les statistiques et mercuriales, les prix du fer, du cuivre, etc., sont rapportés à la tonne anglo-internationale dont je parlerai plus loin et qui diffère à peine du mégagramme.
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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.