tropecientos

Spanish

Etymology

Blend of tropel (“crowd”) +‎ cientos (“hundreds”), modeled after doscientos, trescientos, cuatrocientos, […] .

Adjective

tropecientos (feminine tropecientas, plurale tantum)

1. zillion

Related terms

• (Mexico) chorromil
• (Peru) cuchucientos
• (Argentina) quichicientos
• (El Salvador) quinimil
• (Venezuela, Peru) sopotocientos

Further reading

• “tropecientos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025