What BILLION Means
- noun: the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequently seen
- noun: a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)“there were millions of flies”
- adjective: denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States
- adjective: denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BILLION is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 I1 L1 L1 I1 O1 N1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In BILLION
37 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
6 letter words (1)
5 letter words (1)
4 letter words (12)
3 letter words (13)
2 letter words (10)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.