billón
See also: billon
Asturian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /biˈʎon/ [biˈʎõŋ]
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: bi‧llón
Numeral
billón m sg or f sg (feminine plural billones)
- trillion; 1012
Spanish
| ← 1,000,000 (106) | [a], [b] ← 1,000,000,000 (109) | 1012 | 1018 → | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: un billón Ordinal: billonésimo Fractional: billonésimo | ||||
| Spanish Wikipedia article on 1012 | ||||
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /biˈʝon/ [biˈʝõn] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /biˈʎon/ [biˈʎõn] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /biˈʃon/ [biˈʃõn] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /biˈʒon/ [biˈʒõn] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: bi‧llón
Noun
billón m (plural billones)
- (cardinal number) trillion (1012)
- (obsolete, except in the US, Philippines) billion (109)
- Synonyms: millardo, mil millones
Usage notes
- Outside of Spanish spoken in the United States, billón is a false friend and does not mean billion. The Spanish word for billion is mil millones.
Further reading
- “billón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024