kabillion

noun

"kabillion" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“kabillion” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An unspecified large number (of).

Corpus desk

Index EN-kabillion · kabillion · English

kabillion · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "K" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for kabillion
PropertyValue
Headwordkabillion
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “kabillion” in English

kabillionranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

kabillion is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An unspecified large number (of).".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for kabillion, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Etymologically, the entry records: From billion. Possibly influenced by Arabic كَبِير (kabīr, “big”). The correct English form is kabillion, spelled K-A-B-I-L-L-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    An unspecified large number (of).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how kabillion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. "I want to bottle up this feeling," she told him, awed by its strength. Sexual chemistry, who knew? "We could market it and make a kabillion dollars." "A kabillion is a lot," he murmured, then turned his attention to her left ear. Goose bumps sprinted across every inch of her skin as his tongue feathered over the rim to tickle the lobe. "A kabillion-ten,"…
  2. Now, remember we are one in a kabillion frequencies times a kabillion more. God can see them all at once and causes it to move at will. By the way, I made up the word "kabillion." It just sounds really big and should be a word anyway. You can make up how many zeros that should be.

Etymology

From billion. Possibly influenced by Arabic كَبِير (kabīr, “big”).

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "kabillion"?
"kabillion" is spelled K-A-B-I-L-L-I-O-N.
What does "kabillion" mean?
As a noun, "kabillion" means: An unspecified large number (of).
What is the origin of the word "kabillion"?
From billion. Possibly influenced by Arabic كَبِير (kabīr, “big”). See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list