googol

1. 1.

   a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred)

   Broadercardinal number

Other forms of googol

plural

googols·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about googol

What does googol mean?

googol means "a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred)".

How many syllables are in googol?

googol has 2 syllables and divides as goo-gol 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.