hundred million
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.62 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
num
The number 100,000,000.
Example Sentences
- "Dr. A[braham] M. Zarem has devised the fastest camera shutter on record. It can operate at a rate of a hundred million exposures a second, which is 25,000 times faster than the shutter used on the fastest commercial motion- picture camera."
- "Some hundred million women wear diamonds, while millions of others keep them in safe-deposit boxes or strongboxes as family heirlooms."
- "During the first few hundred million years, he [Steven M. Stanley] said, this debris often slammed into the Earth and the other planets."