Tier five of five
How to spell millennium
What it means
a thousand years
How it sounds
/məˈlɛniəm/
Why it catches people out
Mille (thousand) + annum (year). Two l's from the first, two n's from the second.
The spellings people reach for
- millenium
- milennium
- millennuim
In a sentence
The building dates from the last millennium.