brazillion
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The chances against this ever happening being so vanishly small I don't know how many universes would need to exist for how many brazillions of years for it ever to happen at all."
- "there's about ten brazillion C++ tutorial things on the Interwebz."
- "The chance of igniting hydrogen while jumpstarting a vehicle is about one in a brazillion. The chance of accidentally touching some exposed metal with the red clip is about one in a hundred; the consequences can be severe if the ground wire is already connected."
- "A lot of the experiments in Level II and Level III of this book involve power tools. Quite a few involve projectiles. One involves fire and a brazillion flying sparks."
Etymology
Blend of Brazil + -illion. Possibly originating from an old joke mocking former US president George W. Bush: Donald Rumsfeld is giving the President his daily briefing on Iraq. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, seven Brazilian soldiers were killed in an ambush." "Oh, no! That's terrible!" the President exclaims. His staff sit stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands. Finally, the President looks up and asks, "Um... how many is a brazillion, exactly?"