MeV
The verdict
“MeV” is uncommon French (frequency #64,612 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a symbol. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,612
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Symbole du mégaélectronvolt, unité de mesure d’énergie en dehors du Système international (mais dont l’usage est accepté avec le SI), valant 10⁶ électronvolts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mev · MeV · French
MeV · rank #64,612 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,612
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH messagère
Nearest frequency peer: messagère (-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 « MeV »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mercantilis…
mercantilisme
35,393 corpus weight
- Meriem
Meriem
35,392 corpus weight
- merlan
merlan
35,391 corpus weight
- messagère
messagère
35,390 corpus weight
- MeV
MeV
35,389 corpus weight
- mobilis
mobilis
35,386 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « MeV » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MeV |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #64,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « MeV » en français
Rare enough to double-check
MeV is uncommon French at frequency #64,612 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as asymbol. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Symbole du mégaélectronvolt, unité de mesure d’énergie en dehors du Système international (mais dont l’usage est accepté avec le SI), valant 10⁶ électronvolts.".
Zero misspellings are on record for MeV in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is MeV, spelled M-E-V.
Definition
- 1Symbole du mégaélectronvolt, unité de mesure d’énergie en dehors du Système international (mais dont l’usage est accepté avec le SI), valant 10⁶ électronvolts.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how MeV appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1 MeV ≈ 160,218 fJ
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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