mégaphone
French, noun/me.ɡa.fɔn/
mégaphone is spelled M-É-G-A-P-H-O-N-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 48,990th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mégaphone is a French masculine noun meaning “megaphone (portable device used to amplify a person's voice)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Porte-voix à amplification électronique”.
What does mégaphone mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemegaphone (portable device used to amplify a person's voice)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Porte-voix à amplification électronique. 2. Moyen qui amplifie un message.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mégaphone
- mégaphones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mégaphone?
- /me.ɡa.fɔn/
- \me.ɡa.fɔn\
- [me.ɡa.fɔn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mégaphone
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mégaphone in French?
mégaphone appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).