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vingtillion

vingtillion is the misconstruction of vigintillion.

Meaning of vigintillion

Numeral

vigintillion (plural vigintillions)

  1. Originally, in accordance with the long scale, the twentieth power of a million, 10¹²⁰; now (originally US), in accordance with the short scale, more usually 10⁶³.
    • After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume XI, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular...

Forms of vingtillion

pluralvingtillions

Questions about vingtillion

What is vingtillion the misconstruction of?
Vingtillion is the misconstruction of vigintillion.

Words near vingtillion in the dictionary

  1. vingt-un
  2. vingtaine
  3. vingtaines
  4. vingtenier
  5. vingteniers
  6. vingtillion
  7. vingtun
  8. vingty
  9. Vingólf
  10. Vinh
  11. vinhatico

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vingtillion (page history and authors); vigintillion (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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