sextillion

See also: Sextillion

English

Etymology

From sext- (“six”) +‎ -illion; originally the sixth power of a million, 10³⁶.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛksˈtɪljən/
• Rhymes: -ɪljən

• Audio (US):

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Numeral

sextillion (plural sextillions)

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

Synonyms

• (10²¹): a long scale thousand trillion (trilliard)
• (10³⁶): a short scale undecillion

Coordinate terms

• thousand
• million
• milliard
• thousand million
• billion
• trillion
• quadrillion
• quintillion

Translations

a trillion billion, 10²¹ — see also trilliard

Armenian: հազար եռիլիոն (hazar eṙilion) Dutch: triljard (nl) Esperanto: triiliardo Finnish: triljardi French: trilliard (fr) German: Trilliarde (de) Hungarian: trilliárd (hu) Icelandic: trilljarður f Italian: triliardo (it) Japanese: 十垓 (jū-gai) Korean: 십해 (siphae) Malay: sekstilion (ms) Malayalam: ധൂളി (ml) (dhūḷi) (archaic) Polish: tryliard (pl) m Portuguese: sextilhão (pt) Russian: секстиллио́н (ru) m (sekstillión) Spanish: mil trillones Turkish: sekstilyon (tr)

a million quintillion, 10³⁶ — see also undecillion

Dutch: sextiljoen (nl) Esperanto: sesiliono Finnish: sekstiljoona (fi) French: frantic (fr), sextillion (fr) German: Sextillion (de) Japanese: 一澗 (ikkan) Spanish: sextillón (es)

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Estonian: (please verify) sekstiljon Latin: (please verify) sextillio

See also

• (short and long scale) Previous: quintillion. Next: septillion.
• zetta-

French

French numbers ^(edit)

←  1030	←  1033	1036	1039  →	1042  →
Cardinal: un sextillion     Ordinal: sextillionième
French Wikipedia article on 1036

Etymology

From sext- (“six”) +‎ -illion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛk.sti.ljɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Numeral

sextillion m (plural sextillions)

1. undecillion (10³⁶)
2. (dated) sextillion (10²¹)

Further reading

• “sextillion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.