Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quintillionaire

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: quin-til-lion-aire
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Somebody whose wealth is at least one quintillion (10¹⁸) currency units.

Example Sentences

"He favors letting the gentleman establish the trusts because he's quite sure that by 2961, $89 quadrillion dollars probably won't buy one box of good cigars. By then, he adds, everyone will be a quintillionaire, struggling to make ends meet."
"The constellation Norma had Normaesque constellations . . . the world's richest man was the first quintillionaire, formerly a decillionaire, after losing a lot of his money, and his Moira Sheareresque name was Hanksy Ronald Stump, and he pissed on the skeleton of Donald Trump."
"If Heth could have motivated assembly line workers to move that fast, he'd be a quintillionaire."
"There are no more trillionaires, quadrillionaires, or quintillionaires in Zimbabwe. This followed the slashing of 10 zeros from the Zimbabwean currency by the central bank."

Etymology

From quintillion + -aire.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: quintillion

Inflected Forms

quintillionaires (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

quintillion millionaire billionaire trillionaire quadrillionaire

Questions

What does quintillionaire mean?: Somebody whose wealth is at least one quintillion (10¹⁸) currency units.
Where does quintillionaire come from?: From quintillion + -aire.

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