pétaoctet
French, noun/pe.ta.ɔk.tɛ/
pétaoctet is a French masculine noun meaning “petabyte (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Unité de mesure de quantité d’information numérique, valant 10¹⁵ octets, et dont le symbole est Po”.
What does pétaoctet mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepetabyte (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
- 2
masculinepetabyte (10¹⁵ bytes)
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 quantité d’information numérique, valant 10¹⁵ octets, et dont le symbole est Po.
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 pétaoctet
- pétaoctets plural
- pétoctet
- péta-octet
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pétaoctet?
- /pe.ta.ɔk.tɛ/
- \pe.ta.ɔk.tɛ\
- [pe.ta.ɔk.tɛ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pétaoctet
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pétaoctet in French?
pétaoctet appears about once in every 93 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).