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octillion

  • /ɒkˈtɪl.iː.ən/ UK

Rhymes with -ɪljən

Where it comes from

From French octillion. By surface analysis, oct- (“eight”) + -illion.

number octillions

  1. Australia, UK, US, modern A thousand trillion trillion, a billion billion billion: 1 followed by 27 zeros, 10²⁷. Altogether it takes seven billion billion billion (that’s 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or seven octillion) atoms to make you.
  2. Australia, UK, dated A trillion quintillion: 1 followed by 48 zeros, 10⁴⁸.

Similar: 1027, 1048

Thesaurus

number

Similar: 1027, 1048

Translations

Every language

num a thousand trillion trillion, 10

Españolmil cuatrillones, octillón
日本語千秭
Portuguêsoctilhão
Françaisquadrilliard
DeutschQuadrilliarde
Italianoquatriliardo
Русскийоктиллион oktillion

num a trillion quintillion, 1048 — see also quindecillion

Españoloctillón
中文一極 /一极
Françaisoctillion
DeutschOktillion
Русскийквиндециллион kvindecillion

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"octillion." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/octillion. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

octillion. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/octillion

Chicago

"octillion." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/octillion.

BibTeX
@misc{octillion_2026,
  title = {octillion},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/octillion},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}