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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thousand million

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English

Syllables
thou-sand mil-lion
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

num

Synonym of billion (“short scale: 10⁹, or 1,000 × 1,000²”).

British usage

Example Sentences

Usage

Frequently Paired Words

thousand million milliard billion trillion quadrillion quintillion sextillion

Synonyms

billion

Questions

What does thousand million mean?
Synonym of billion (“short scale: 10⁹, or 1,000 × 1,000²”).

How to pronounce thousand million

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