How do you spell megapixel?

M-E-G-A-P-I-X-E-L

Megapixel is spelled M-E-G-A-P-I-X-E-L as one word, with pixel ending in e-l. Writers often reverse the last two letters to make pixle. An 8K file among the stock pictures here works out to roughly 33 megapixels.

Spelling tip

One word, no hyphen; pixel ends in -el, not -le.

What it means

A megapixel is one million pixels; 8K stock pictures at 7680 by 4320 contain about 33 megapixels.

Common misspellings

• mega pixel → megapixel
• megapixle → megapixel
• mega-pixel → megapixel
• megapixal → megapixel
• megapiksel → megapixel