bullion
/ˈbʊl.jən/noun
bullion is spelled B-U-L-L-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is boullion: about 440 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Bullion is a noun meaning “A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots”. The plural of bullion is bullions.
How many letters and syllables are in bullion?
| Letters | 7: B-U-L-L-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.5 times per million words; the 22,965th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, boullion, about 440 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell bullion?
Bullion is spelled B-U-L-L-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for bullion in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is bullion?
Bullion appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,965th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce bullion?
- /ˈbʊl.jən/
Bullion has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-bullion.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of bullion
- bullions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bullion mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.
- 2
obsoleteBase or uncurrent coin.
- 3
obsoleteShowy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.
- 4
obsoleteA heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.
- 5
The mark left on a glass piece from its attachment to a punty.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Bullion in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense bulk quantity of precious metal:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does bullion come from?
From Middle English bulloin, bullioun, from Anglo-Norman bullion, of obscure origin, perhaps from French bouillon, extending the sense to that of ‘melting’. Middle Dutch boelioen (“base metal”) seems to have come from the unrelated French billon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).