How to pronounce decillion
American English pronunciation
dih-SIL-yun
- IPA
- /dɪˈsɪljən/
- Syllables
- dih · SIL · yun (3 syllables, stress on the 2nd)
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What decillion means
A huge number, 1 followed by 33 zeros
In a sentence: Zara wrote a decillion on the board and counted every zero twice.
Where it comes from: It's built from deca-, meaning ten, and the ending of million. It was first written down in 1709, in an English translation of a math book.
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