bilião
Portuguese, noun/bi.liˈɐ̃w̃/
bilião is spelled B-I-L-I-Ã-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 44,753rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bilião is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “trillion (10¹²)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “milhão de milhões (10¹²)”.
What does bilião mean in English?
noun
- 1
Portugalmasculinetrillion (10¹²)
- 2
colloquialmasculinebillion (an unspecified very large number)
Tenho um bilião de coisas para fazer.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. milhão de milhões (10¹² = 1.000.000.000.000) 2. mil milhões (10⁹ = 1.000.000.000)
noun: 1. milhão de milhões (10¹²) 2. mil milhões (10⁹)
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bilião
- biliões plural
- bilhão alternative informal
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bilião?
- Brazil /bi.liˈɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [bi.liˈɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Brazil /biˈljɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bilião
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bilião in Portuguese?
bilião appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).