BILLIE

  

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BILLIE

"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.


Modern Usage: BILLIE

DomainUsage

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)

Little Billie and the Bellows (1913)

Song Titles

Billie Jean (performing artist: Michael Jackson)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: BILLIE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Shadows Across the Sand (Dodson, Susan. Billie Lowe Mystery.) (reference)

  • Louis and Billie Van Dyke's the Blue Willow Inn Cookbook (reference)

  • Die Ballade von Billie und Joe : Roman (reference)

  • Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience, Including Charlotte Bronte, Louisa May Alcott, Anais Nin, Maya Angelou, Billie Holiday, Nina Hagen, Carrie Fisher, and Others (reference)

  • This Indecision Is Final: 32 Management Secrets of Albert Einstein, Billie Holiday, and a Bunch of Other People Who Never Worked 9 to 5 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Lady Day - The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: BILLIE

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & 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.

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Familiar Quotations: BILLIE

AuthorQuotation

Billie Jean King

Champions are afraid to lose when most others are afraid to win.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Spoken Usage: BILLIE

SpeakerPhrase(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.

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Usage Frequency: BILLIE

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%15824,965

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: BILLIE

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BillieFirst name Female69,000278
BillieFirst name Male17,000522
BillieLast name1,00015,919
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: BILLIE

"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."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
GwilhermMaleBretonWilliam
GuillemMaleCatalanWilliam
VilemMaleCzechWilliam
WillemMaleDutchWilliam
BillMaleEnglishWilliam
BillieMale, FemaleEnglishWilliam
BillyMaleEnglishWilliam
WilkieMaleEnglishWilliam
WillMaleEnglishWilliam
WillaFemaleEnglishWilliam
WilliamMaleEnglishN/A
WillieMale, FemaleEnglishWilliam
WillisMaleEnglishWilliam
WillyMaleEnglishWilliam
WilmotMaleEnglishWilliam
WilsonMaleEnglishWilliam
VilchjoMaleEsperantoWilliam
VilhelmoMaleEsperantoWilliam
VilhelmiMaleFinnishWilliam
VilhelmiinaFemaleFinnishWilliam
ViljamiMaleFinnishWilliam
VilleMaleFinnishWilliam
GuillaumeMaleFrenchWilliam
WilhelmMaleGermanWilliam
WilhelminaFemaleGermanWilliam
VilhelmMaleHungarianWilliam
ViliMaleHungarianWilliam
VilmosMaleHungarianWilliam
VilhjálmurMaleIcelandicWilliam
LiamMaleIrishWilliam
UilliamMaleIrishWilliam
GuglielmoMaleItalianWilliam
VelvelMaleJewishWilliam
VilhelmsMaleLatvianWilliam
WiremuMaleMaoriWilliam
GuilhermeMalePortugueseWilliam
VilhelmMaleScandinavianWilliam
UilleamMaleScottishWilliam
ViljemMaleSloveneWilliam
GuillermoMaleSpanishWilliam
GwilMaleWelshWilliam
GwilimMaleWelshWilliam
GwillymMaleWelshWilliam
GwilymMaleWelshWilliam
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: BILLIE

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BILLIE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

billie holiday

736

billie holiday biography

27

billie dog mad

313

billie burke

24

billie piper

239

billie safari swamp

22

billie

197

billie lauder

18

billie jean

131

billie holiday strange fruit

17

billie jean king

87

billie joel

15

billie jean lyrics

73

billie west

15

billie holiday lyrics

71

billie jo spear

14

billie myers

64

billie holiday photo

14

billie jackson jean lyrics michael

52

billie myers lyrics

13

billie holliday

52

billie dog madd

13

billie maddog

49

billie day of our life

12

michael jackson billie jean

42

billie myers kiss the rain

12

billie holiday picture

41

billie holiday song

11

joe armstrong billie

38

armstrong billie joe picture

11

the legend of billie jean

34

billie joe picture

10

ode to billie joe

33

buster and billie

10

billie joe

31

billie brim

10

billie letts

28

billie reed

9

billie creek village

28

billie dog mad morning show

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BILLIE

Language Translations for "BILLIE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Thai

  

แบงค์. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: BILLIE

Derivations

Words beginning with "BILLIE": billies. (additional references)

Words containing "BILLIE": hillbillies, rockabillies. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "BILLIE"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "BILLIE" (pronounced bi"lē)
4b i" l ēBilly.
3-i" l ēChile, chili, chilly, dilly, filly, frilly, fusilli, gillie, Gilly, hilly, Lily, really, silly, villi, Willy.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: BILLIE

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

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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