trillion
/ˈtɹɪ(l)jən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.79 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Javik: Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. Their silence is your answer."
- "Data published by the Treasury Department showed that “total public debt outstanding” rose to $34.001 trillion on December 29."
- "As President Donald Trump prepares to order the dismantling of the Department of Education, the financial arm of the agency – which makes loans directly to borrowers and manages trillions of dollars in student debt – faces an uncertain future, with steep staff cuts and lack of communication exacerbating the uncertainty, according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former department employees."
- "Near-synonyms: gazillion; see also Thesaurus:zillion"
- "There were trillions of people at the concert."
Etymology
Borrowed from French trillion, from French tri- (“three”) + -illion, equivalent to tri- + -illion. The noun was coined by American basketball player Harvey Pollack, because of the way the numbers read across a basketball box score.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtɹɪ(l)jən/
Usage
- Australian usage
- British usage
- American usage
- Dated
- Colloquial
- Slang
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
billion[long scale]]>
quintillion
gazillion
one million million
1000000000000
one million million million
million
billion
zillion
jillion
bazillion