MWh
The verdict
“MWh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,807) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,807
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Symbole du mégawatt-heure, unité de mesure d’énergie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mwh · MWh · French
MWh · rank #49,807 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,807
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mud
Nearest frequency peer: mud (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « MWh »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Movistar
Movistar
50,197 corpus weight
- MSG
MSG
50,196 corpus weight
- mud
mud
50,195 corpus weight
- MWh
MWh
50,194 corpus weight
- mélodiques
mélodiques
50,193 corpus weight
- mélomanes
mélomanes
50,192 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « MWh » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MWh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #49,807 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « MWh »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for MWh is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "Mx", …), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #49,807 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Symbole du mégawatt-heure, unité de mesure d’énergie.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for MWh, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "Mx", "M", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 MWh, spelled M-W-H.
Definition
- 1Symbole du mégawatt-heure, unité de mesure d’énergie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how MWh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1 MWh = 3,6 GJ
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).