million
mil·lion/ˈmɪl.jən/number
million is spelled M-I-L-L-I-O-N, 2 syllables: mil·lion. The wrong spelling people search most is millon: about 170 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 16 of all searches for the word. Million is a number meaning “The cardinal number 1 000 000: 10⁶; a thousand thousand (1,000²)”.
How many letters and syllables are in million?
| Letters | 7: M-I-L-L-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: mil·lion |
| In writing | 214 times per million words; the 471st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, millon, about 170 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 million?
Million is spelled M-I-L-L-I-O-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for million 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 million?
Million appears 214 times per million words in written English, the 471st 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 million?
- /ˈmɪl.jən/
- Australia /ˈmɪ(l)jən/
Million has 2 syllables, split mil·lion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-million.ogg, En-us-million.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does million mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
number
- 1
The cardinal number 1 000 000: 10⁶; a thousand thousand (1,000²).
Near-synonyms: mega-, M-
- 2
colloquialAn unspecified very large number.
Near-synonyms: gazillion; see also Thesaurus:zillion
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate million?
Wiktionary records 5 abbreviations of million: M, m, mil, milly, mn.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Million in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense cardinal number:
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.