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Spell Bee Word: Trillion


What does trillion mean?

Word: Trillion

Part of Speech: Number

Meaning: Trillion means the number written as 1 followed by twelve zeros.

How do you spell trillion?

Syllables: tril - lion

Tricky part: The middle has a double l. Because you hear only one l sound, children often write trilion.

Watch out for: trilion, triliion

Memory tip: Tap the table twice as you say the middle of tril-lion: one tap for each l.

Trillion in a sentence

Example 1: Grandpa joked that he had told us that story a trillion times.

Example 2: The news said the country's budget runs into trillions of rupees.

Example 3: Meera wrote out a trillion in figures and ran out of space on the line.

Fun Fact

A trillion seconds is more than 30,000 years, so nobody could ever count that far.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell Spies

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) ninty
b) eleven
c) dozen
d) thousand

Show answer

a) ninty. Ninety keeps the e of nine.

Spellacadabra

Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:

trill___

a) ian
b) eon
c) ion
d) yon

Show answer

c) ion. The ending is the same three letters you see at the end of onion.

Jumble Tumble

What is the meaning of the word that can be formed from the given letters?

lirtonil

a) a thousand thousands
b) a dozen dozens
c) a million millions
d) a hundred hundreds

Show answer

c) a million millions. Lirtonil sorts out to trillion, a million times a million.

Word Champ

Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?

trillion

a) toil
b) iron
c) trot
d) roll

Show answer

c) trot. There is only one t to use, and trot begins and ends with one.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Scientists say the human body is made of trillions of tiny...

a) beads
b) coins
c) cells
d) pebbles

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c) cells

2. Which of these is most likely to run into trillions?

a) pages in a book
b) grains of sand on a beach
c) days in a year
d) pupils in a class

Show answer

b) grains of sand on a beach

Associated Words

Words that end in -ion: operation, evaporation, version, subtraction, division, injection

More words from this list

adorn, carton, crossing, eighth, harmonium, matchstick, poster, spicy

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