billón
/biˈʝon/ · B2 · noun · m
million
💰 bi- + millón = a million millions (10¹²), a false friend of English billion
Spanish uses the long scale: bi- (two) means the second power of a million, so un billón = 1,000,000,000,000. An English billion (10⁹) is mil millones in Spanish. Rule of thumb: billón = English trillion.