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Milliardaire yes, of course. Why doesn't that sound right to you?

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_milliardaires_du_mon...

It doesn't sound like English, at least in my brain it doesn't register as English, and I may have found a plausible reason: If you look up the amount of English words with the letters "iarda" on them you only find 3 words (at least according to wordmine.info), but French shows 38 words, even just "arda" the difference is huge: 317 vs 2017 words https://www.wordmine.info/french/words-with?minletters=2&max...

Well, it's mostly the -aire ending that is uncommon in English, because it comes from French, as far as I know all -aire words in English are straight French loanwords. It's somewhat equivalent to the English suffix -ar.

That makes millionaire and billionaire about as unenglish as milliardaire, I think it just doesn't sound weird to you because you see them more often.

>It doesn't sound like English [...]

Guess what? Some people (70-80% of the world) speak other languages.

In Czech, which uses the long scale, yes. The equivalent of "milliardaire".

Exactly how it's called in french