mégawatts
\me.ɡa.wat\
The verdict
“mégawatts” is uncommon French (frequency #57,450 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,450
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mégawatt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-megawatts · mégawatts · French
mégawatts · rank #57,450 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,450
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH médians
Nearest frequency peer: médians (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « mégawatts »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- MySQL
MySQL
42,554 corpus weight
- mâtiné
mâtiné
42,553 corpus weight
- médians
médians
42,552 corpus weight
- mégawatts
mégawatts
42,551 corpus weight
- ménélas
ménélas
42,550 corpus weight
- méthodiste
méthodiste
42,548 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mégawatts » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mégawatts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ɡa.wat\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mégawatts » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mégawatts is uncommon French at frequency #57,450 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.ɡa.wat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de mégawatt.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mégawatts, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 mégawatts, spelled M-É-G-A-W-A-T-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mégawatt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mégawatts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le centre de répartition de la production électrique de Kiev fait alors une demande complémentaire de courant et, pour y satisfaire, on maintient une puissance de plus de mille mégawatts thermiques jusqu’à 23 heures.
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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