bazillion

Questions about bazillion

What does bazillion mean?

bazillion means "a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)".

How many syllables are in bazillion?

bazillion has 4 syllables and divides as ba-zil-li-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bazillion?

Close synonyms include million, billion, trillion, zillion, jillion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bazillion a common word?

bazillion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.