trillion
\tʁi.ljɔ̃\
The verdict
“trillion” is uncommon French (frequency #96,461 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,461
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un milliard de milliards ou un million au cube, selon l’échelle longue. 10¹⁸.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trillion · trillion · French
trillion · rank #96,461 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,461
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tricotage
Nearest frequency peer: tricotage (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « trillion »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- transsexuel…
transsexuelles
3,543 corpus weight
- Trastevere
Trastevere
3,542 corpus weight
- tricotage
tricotage
3,541 corpus weight
- trillion
trillion
3,540 corpus weight
- troupiers
troupiers
3,539 corpus weight
- trépidant
trépidant
3,537 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trillion » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trillion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi.ljɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,461 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trillion » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trillion is uncommon French at frequency #96,461 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁi.ljɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for trillion in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is trillion, spelled T-R-I-L-L-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Un milliard de milliards ou un million au cube, selon l’échelle longue. 10¹⁸.
- 2ou Un million de millions, selon l’échelle courte. 10¹².
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trillion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Billions’ (douze zéros), trillions (18 zéros), trilliards (21 zéros), quatrillions’(24 zéros).
Mais je savais aussi que vingt lettres seulement peuvent former deux quintillions, quatre cent trente-deux quatrillions, neuf cent deux trillions, huit milliards, cent soixante-seize millions, six cent quarante mille combinaisons.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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