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I'm talking about the "cultural" ones, because with the yen currency the scale
is completely different (millionnaire with yen is only about having
approximately 10 000 usd so I don't think it's the real equivalent).
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What are the equivalents of millionnaire, multimillionaire and billionaire in Japanese?
[億万長者【おくまんちょうじゃ】](https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=%E5%84%84%E4%B8%87%E9%95%B7%E8%80%85&ref=sa)
is the best-known word. Actually there is also a word
[百万長者](http://jisho.org/word/%E7%99%BE%E4%B8%87%E9%95%B7%E8%80%85), but it's
not commonly used for the obvious reason.

ミリオネア is at least understood [because of this TV
program](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiz_$_Millionaire), but it's not used
in daily conversations.
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There is also the word [大富豪]{だい・ふ・ごう}, but I don't know if it's commonly used
other than for the [card
game](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%AF%8C%E8%B1%AA).
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