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billón

trillion

noun bee-LYOHN Less Common

Usage Note

Billón is a critical false friend: in Spanish it means one million million (10¹²), the same as the English 'trillion'. The English 'billion' (10⁹) is mil millones in Spanish. This difference often causes major errors in financial or scientific texts. The plural is billones.

Examples

"El presupuesto supera un billón de euros."

Natural Translation

The budget exceeds one trillion euros.

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