How do you pronounce octillion?

The recorded pronunciation is /ɒkˈtɪl.iː.ən/.

octillion

/ɒkˈtɪl.iː.ən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: oct-il-li-on
IPA: /ɒkˈtɪl.iː.ən/

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Meaning

num

A thousand trillion trillion, a billion billion billion: 1 followed by 27 zeros, 10²⁷.

Australian usage; British usage; American usage

num

A trillion quintillion: 1 followed by 48 zeros, 10⁴⁸.

Australian usage; British usage; Dated

Example Sentences

"Altogether it takes seven billion billion billion (that’s 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or seven octillion) atoms to make you."
"We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life spans of a couple octillion attoseconds. And an attosecond is an eternity compared with the lifetime of the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for one-thousandth of an attosecond before decaying."

Etymology

From French octillion. By surface analysis, oct- (“eight”) + -illion.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: octillion

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ɒkˈtɪl.iː.ən/

Usage

Australian usage
British usage
American usage
Dated

Inflected Forms

octillions (plural)

Derived Forms

octillionaire octillionfold octillionth

Phrases

Previous: septillion. Next: nonillion.

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