Unscramble

s 1 e 1 x 8 t 1 i 1 l 1 l 1 i 1 o 1 n 1

10 letters · 17 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun the number that is represented as a one followed by 21 zeros

originFrom Classical Latin sextus (“sixth”) + -illion; originally the sixth power of a million, 10³⁶. Compare slightly earlier quintillion, Middle French sixlion (1484) and French sextillion (1765). First attested in 1689 in John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (see the quotation).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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