Definitions for billion

billion bil·lion

Spelling: [bil-yuh n]
IPA: /ˈbɪl yən/

Billion is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in billion (biillno).

Definitions for billion

noun

  1. a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 9 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 12 zeros.
  2. a very large number:

adjective

  1. equal in number to a billion.

Origin of billion

1680-90; French, equivalent to b(i)- bi-1 + -illion, as in million

Examples for billion

These mines may yield gold to the amount of a billion dollars.

A billion dollars and immunity to cut off the outer dome of force.

Minutes ago, Tanith had been six and a half billion miles away.

A billion billion morsels of wet mud were no more imposing than one.

“About a billion dollars, I guess,” he answered, after mature consideration.

Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.

The amount of vanished bitcoins was 650,000 BTC (or 24.7 billion yen).

And as a bonus, they send home more than $20 billion in remittances each year.

Among other things, the bill appropriates $1.1 trillion in funding—including over $550 billion for the Department of Defense.

Why else would $4 billion have been spent on the midterm election?

Word Value for billion
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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