Standard Lemma guide

googol

num · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡuː.ɡɒl/
  • General-American: go͞o′gəl
  • General-American: go͞o′gŏl
  • General-American: /ˈɡu.ɡəl/
  • General-American: /ˈɡu.ɡɑl/
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  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -uːɡəl
  • homophone: google
  • homophone: Google

1

num

Meaning 1

The number 10100, or ten to the power of a hundred. Equivalent to ten duotrigintillion (short scale), or ten sexdecilliard (long scale).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cardinal number, cardinal

History

Etymology

Coined by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1920, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, who had asked Milton to think of a name for the 100th power of ten. The word was first published in the book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).

Across languages

Translations

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: гу́гол (gúgol) — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Chinese Mandarin: 古高爾 /古高尔 (gǔgāo'ěr) — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Dutch: googol — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Esperanto: guglo — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Estonian: googol — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Finnish: googol — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • French: gogol — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • German: Googol — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Greek: γκούγκολ (gkoúgkol) — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Greek: δέκα τριακονταδίς εκατομμύρια (déka triakontadís ekatommýria) — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Hebrew: גוגול — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Hungarian: googol — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Japanese: グーゴル (gūgoru) — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Korean: 구골 (gugol) — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Lithuanian: gugolas — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Malay: ڤولوه دووتريݢينتيليون — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Malay: puluh duotrigintilion — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Norwegian: googol — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Norwegian Bokmål: googol — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: googol — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Polish: googol — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Portuguese: googol — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Russian: гугол (gugol) — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Spanish: gúgol — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Swedish: googol — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Thai: กูกอล (googon) — 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • Ukrainian: гугол (huhol) — 1 followed by 100 zeros