How to say "total" in Japanese

• 総そうJLPT N1approx.Common
  prefixNot a standalone word but a combining element meaning whole, total, gross, or entire; it appears inside other words when you want a gross or overall figure rather than a single summed amount.
  総そう入れ歯いればにする必要ひつようがあります。↗

  You have to have a full denture.
• トータルCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbThe katakana loanword for a total: both the final figure you get by adding up and the act of totalling itself, as when summing a bill or a score.
  行いって帰かえって、トータル１週間しゅうかんぐらいの予定よていになりそうだね。↗

  There and back, in total, it looks like being a schedule of about one week.
• 通算つうさんCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbA total reached by adding figures together over a period or across a series — a cumulative or aggregate sum, the kind you see in career totals, rather than the total of a single amount.
• 全額ぜんがくCommon
  nounThe full amount of a sum of money — the entire sum to be paid or covered, in contrast with a partial payment; use it when the point is that nothing is left out.
  なるべく早はやく、全額ぜんがくをご送金そうきんくださるようお願ねがいします。↗

  May we ask you to remit the settlement in full at your earliest convenience?
• 総数そうすうCommon
  nounA total expressed as a count: the total number of people or things, as when reporting how many there are in all; it is a headcount or item count, not a sum of money.
  上うえの例れいが不自然ふしぜんであることの証拠しょうこは、構成要素こうせいようそＸが現あらわれた総数そうすうを比較ひかくすることでわかる。↗

  Evidence that the above example is farfetched can be seen by comparing the total occurrences of component X.

For a straightforward sum use 「トータル」; for the full amount of money 全額; for a total count 総数; for cumulative totals 通算; 総 is a combining element meaning whole, gross, or entire, used within other words.

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• 総そうwhole
• トータルtotal
• 通算つうさんtotal
• 全額ぜんがくtotal
• 総数そうすうtotal (number)
• 総計そうけいtotal
• 全面的ぜんめんてきtotal
• 全ぜんall
• 全的ぜんてきtotal
• 累算るいさんtotal
• 〆るしめるto total
• 通計つうけいsum
• 締め高しめだかsum
• ずぶのcomplete
• アマウントamount
• 満幅まんぷくfull
• はんぱないto a great extent
• 締めるしめるto total
• 見事みごとutter (esp. defeat)
• 締めしめtotal
• 満腹まんぷくcomplete
• べたcomplete
• グロスgross (i.e. not net)
• 計けい(in) total
• 赤あかcomplete
• 延べのべtotal (preceding counter, unit, etc.)
• 合ごうsum