billón

See also: billon

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈʎon/, [biˈʎõŋ]
• Rhymes: -on
• Hyphenation: bi‧llón

Numeral

billón m sg or f sg (plural billones)

1. trillion; 10¹²

Spanish

Spanish numbers ^(edit)

←  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]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /biˈʝon/ [biˈʝõn]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /biˈʎon/ [biˈʎõn]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /biˈʃon/ [biˈʃõn]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /biˈʒon/ [biˈʒõn]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: bi‧llón

Noun

billón m (plural billones)

1. (cardinal number) trillion (10¹²)
2. (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), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16