sextillion

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
20
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/sɛksˈtɪljən/

Definition of sextillion

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

num

  1. (Australia, British, US)A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 10²¹.
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num

  1. (Australia, British, US)A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 10²¹.
  2. (Australia, British, dated)A million quintillion: 1 followed by 36 zeros, 10³⁶.

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Etymology

From Classical Latin sextus (“sixth”) + -illion; originally the sixth power of a million, 10³⁶. Compare slightly earlier quintillion, Middle French sixlion (1484) and French sextillion (1765). First attested in 1689 in John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (see the quotation).

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