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"BILLIE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a will", "a desire", "a helmet", "a protection". |
"BILLIE" is a common misspelling or typo for: belie. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Do you like Billie Holiday? (Clueless; writing credit: Amy Heckerling.) I wanna see Lena Horne at the Cotton Club -- hear Billie Holiday sing fine and mellow -- walk in that kind of rain that never washes perfume away. (Save the Tiger; writing credit: Steve Shagan) The illusion that it will make a white woman more like Billie Holiday. (Annie Hall; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) | |
Lyrics | She told me her name was Billie Jean (Billie Jean; performing artist: MICHAEL JACKSON) The Billie Jean is not my lover (Billie Jean; performing artist: MICHAEL JACKSON) And now ya tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry) 'n' Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry) Billie Jean is always talkin' (Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'; performing artist: Michael Jackson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Buster and Billie (1974) The Ballad of Billie Blue (1972) Billie (1965) The Hillbilly Billie (1915) | |
Song Titles | Billie Jean (performing artist: Michael Jackson) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Billie Moore shops in the dairy section of Giant Foods in Dumfries, VA. Credit: USDA. | ![]() | East of the Pecos : by Billie Sol Estes. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | What every husband knows. Hey! What's the big laugh? : Oh, Billie, dear, I'm just ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Billie Jean King playing tennis at South Orange, N.J. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Television cameras filming Billie Sol Estes (right) conferring with his attorneys, John Dennison (left) and John Cofer, during his trial for swindling, Tyler, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Billie Holiday with a group of African American children in a school in Merriam, Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Florenz Ziegfeld, his daughter Patricia, holding roses, and Billie Burke, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing front. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Burke, Billie, Miss, portrait photograph. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Portrait of Billie Holiday. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Billie Jean King | Champions are afraid to lose when most others are afraid to win. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rosemary Clooney | Sure, wonderful singer. Anyway Billie and Tony were really close friends so when I met her, she kind of made that association and was a very good friend of mine and was nice to me. And so she is my first daughter's godmother. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BILLIE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BILLIE" is used about 158 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 158 | 24,965 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BILLIE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Billie | First name Female | 69,000 | 278 |
| Billie | First name Male | 17,000 | 522 |
| Billie | Last name | 1,000 | 15,919 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "BILLIE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a will", "a desire", "a helmet", "a protection". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "BILLIE." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Gwilherm | Male | Breton | William |
| Guillem | Male | Catalan | William |
| Vilem | Male | Czech | William |
| Willem | Male | Dutch | William |
| Bill | Male | English | William |
| Billie | Male, Female | English | William |
| Billy | Male | English | William |
| Wilkie | Male | English | William |
| Will | Male | English | William |
| Willa | Female | English | William |
| William | Male | English | N/A |
| Willie | Male, Female | English | William |
| Willis | Male | English | William |
| Willy | Male | English | William |
| Wilmot | Male | English | William |
| Wilson | Male | English | William |
| Vilchjo | Male | Esperanto | William |
| Vilhelmo | Male | Esperanto | William |
| Vilhelmi | Male | Finnish | William |
| Vilhelmiina | Female | Finnish | William |
| Viljami | Male | Finnish | William |
| Ville | Male | Finnish | William |
| Guillaume | Male | French | William |
| Wilhelm | Male | German | William |
| Wilhelmina | Female | German | William |
| Vilhelm | Male | Hungarian | William |
| Vili | Male | Hungarian | William |
| Vilmos | Male | Hungarian | William |
| Vilhjálmur | Male | Icelandic | William |
| Liam | Male | Irish | William |
| Uilliam | Male | Irish | William |
| Guglielmo | Male | Italian | William |
| Velvel | Male | Jewish | William |
| Vilhelms | Male | Latvian | William |
| Wiremu | Male | Maori | William |
| Guilherme | Male | Portuguese | William |
| Vilhelm | Male | Scandinavian | William |
| Uilleam | Male | Scottish | William |
| Viljem | Male | Slovene | William |
| Guillermo | Male | Spanish | William |
| Gwil | Male | Welsh | William |
| Gwilim | Male | Welsh | William |
| Gwillym | Male | Welsh | William |
| Gwilym | Male | Welsh | William |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "BILLIE": Billie Jean King ♦ Billie Jean Moffitt King ♦ Billie the Kid. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BILLIE": Billie-jean. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "BILLIE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Thai | แบงค์. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BILLIE": billies. (additional references) | |
Words containing "BILLIE": hillbillies, rockabillies. (additional references) | |
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"BILLIE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abilio, Baillio, Balulise, Baylie, Bilbie, Bilic, bilie, Billah, Billam, Bille, billee, Billis, Billiter, Bilqis, Boilly, Bollee, Bollier, Buellia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BILLIE" (pronounced bi"lē) |
| 4 | b i" l ē | Billy. |
| 3 | -i" l ē | Chile, chili, chilly, dilly, filly, frilly, fusilli, gillie, Gilly, hilly, Lily, really, silly, villi, Willy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-i-l-l" | |
-1 letter: libel. | |
-2 letters: bell, bile, bill. | |
-3 letters: bel, ell, ill, lei, lib, lie. | |
-4 letters: be, bi, el, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-i-l-l" | |
+1 letter: billies. | |
+2 letters: elidible, eligible, eligibly, libeling, libelist. | |
+3 letters: billeting, billowier, eligibles, fiberfill, fibrefill, fibrillae, illegible, illegibly, illiberal, indelible, indelibly, labialize, libelists, libelling, limitable, litigable, misbilled, rebilling, sibylline, zibelline. | |
+4 letters: belittling, bibliopole, bidonville, biennially, billfishes, billowiest, bimetallic, brilliance, dishabille, dislikable, ebullition, fiberfills, fibrefills, fibrillate, inclinable, includible, ineligible, ineludible, infallible, inflexible, inflexibly, inviolable, labialized, labializes, labilities, legibility, liberalise, liberalism, liberalist, liberality, liberalize, negligible, negligibly, prebilling, reeligible, solubilise, solubilize, utilizable, zibellines. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Spoken 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Names: Derived from 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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