millionaire
/ˌmɪl.jəˈnɛɹ/noun
millionaire is spelled M-I-L-L-I-O-N-A-I-R-E. The wrong spelling people search most is millionare: about 170 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Millionaire is a noun meaning “Somebody whose wealth is at least one million (10⁶) currency units (usually understood to exclude holders of…”. The plural of millionaire is millionaires.
How many letters and syllables are in millionaire?
| Letters | 11: M-I-L-L-I-O-N-A-I-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.4 times per million words; the 10,680th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, millionare, about 170 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell millionaire?
Millionaire is spelled M-I-L-L-I-O-N-A-I-R-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for millionaire 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 millionaire?
Millionaire appears 5.4 times per million words in written English, the 10,680th 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 millionaire?
- UK /ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/
- US /ˌmɪl.jəˈnɛɹ/
- US /ˈmɪl.jəˌnɛɹ/
Millionaire has 3 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-millionaire.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-millionaire.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with millionaire?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as millionaire from its last stressed vowel (/ɛɹ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of millionaire
- millionaires plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does millionaire mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Somebody whose wealth is at least one million (10⁶) currency units (usually understood to exclude holders of hyperinflated currencies).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Millionaire in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense somebody whose wealth is greater than one million:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | millionnaire |
| German | Millionär, Millionärin |
| Portuguese | milionário |
| Spanish | millonario, millonaria |
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 millionaire come from?
From French millionnaire. By surface analysis, million + -aire.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).