Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

millennium bug

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English

Syllables: mil-len-ni-um bug
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A design flaw in computer systems that represented years as two digits (e.g. 84 for 1984), which could cause date calculations to fail if they involved years later than 1999.

Example Sentences

"Mr Johnson also said the Northern Irish border row had been blown out of proportion and compared fears over disruption over vital goods coming into the UK to "pure millennium bug stuff"."

Synonyms

Y2K Y2K bug Y2K scare year 2000 problem

Questions

What does millennium bug mean?: A design flaw in computer systems that represented years as two digits (e.g. 84 for 1984), which could cause date calculations to fail if they involved years later than 1999.

How to pronounce millennium bug

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