crore means ten million (10⁷): 10,000,000, that is, with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,00,000. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.
crore is pronounced /kɹoɹ/.
Why “crore” is a great word
CRORE — [Noun] A unit of value equal to ten million (10,000,000), a cornerstone of the Indian numbering system. Borrowed from Hindustani करोड़ / کروڑ (karoṛ), from Prakrit kroḍi, from Sanskrit कोटि (koṭi, "ten million"). First recorded in English use in 1609. Unlike "million," a universal 10⁶, or "lakh," its hundredfold smaller sibling in the same system, a crore is a sovereign measure of scale. It is the demographic weight of a megacity, the aspirational price tag on a cricket star, and the bureaucratic abstraction of a welfare scheme’s beneficiaries—a numeral that, in its very utterance, confesses the scale on which a civilization must reckon with itself.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindustani करोड़ / کروڑ (karoṛ).
noun
- ten million (10⁷): 10,000,000, that is, with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,00,000.“Meronym: lakh”