MeV
The verdict
“MeV” is uncommon French (frequency #64,612 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a symbol. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,612
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “MeV” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
MeV is uncommon French at frequency #64,612 among 202,672 “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.
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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Using “MeV”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-V - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.