Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

googleplex

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.48 in modern English

Syllables: google-plex
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Misspelling of googolplex.

name

The corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc.

Example Sentences

"A googleplex, if it has slipped your mind, is a figure represented by the numeral 1 followed by a million zeros and then squared."
"The air will be filled with raw and encrypted information, and ever smaller wireless units will be processing googleplex gigabytes of information[…]"
"[…]the deus ex machina that selects our cosmic code from the googleplex of alternatives that lurk in the mathematical recesses of the theory."
"Both Larry and Sergey wanted to make Google a fun place to work. Reflecting their beliefs, the Googleplex was decorated with Lava Lamps and painted in the bright colors of the Google Logo […]"

Etymology

Blend of Google + complex, and a reference to googolplex (“10^{10^{100”)}}.

Inflected Forms

googleplexes (plural)

Questions

What does googleplex mean?: Misspelling of googolplex.
Where does googleplex come from?: Blend of Google + complex, and a reference to googolplex (“10^{10^{100”)}}.

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