mégawatt
French, noun/me.ɡa.wat/
mégawatt is spelled M-É-G-A-W-A-T-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 127,906th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mégawatt is a French masculine noun meaning “megawatt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Unité de mesure de puissance du Système international (SI), valant 10⁶ watts, et dont le symbole est MW”.
What does mégawatt mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemegawatt
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Unité de mesure de puissance du Système international (SI), valant 10⁶ watts, et dont le symbole est MW.
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 mégawatt
- mégawatts plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mégawatt?
- /me.ɡa.wat/
- \me.ɡa.wat\
- [me.ɡa.wat]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mégawatt
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mégawatt in French?
mégawatt appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).