megabyte

Other forms of megabyte

plural

megabytes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about megabyte

What does megabyte mean?

megabyte means "a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in megabyte?

megabyte has 3 syllables: meg-a-byte. The stress falls on "meg". In IPA it is /ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt/.

What is another word for megabyte?

Close synonyms include M, MB, mebibyte, M, MB. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is megabyte a common word?

megabyte is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with megabyte?

12 words rhyme with megabyte. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.