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Crosswords: BILLIG |
| Non-English Usage: "BILLIG" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (cheap, inexpensive), German (cheap, cheaply, fair, feeble, gimcrack, inexpensive, just, low, low-cost, meet, petty, proper, reasonable, righteous, shabby, tacky, tinny), Norwegian (cheap, inexpensive), Swedish (brummagem, cheap, economic, economical, fair, flashy, fustian, inexpensive, pulp, reasonable). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Blonde Engel sind nicht billig (1969) Traumhaft billig Venedig (1988) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "BILLIG" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 61.90% of the time. "BILLIG" is used about 21 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) | 61.9% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 38.1% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BILLIG" 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 |
| Billig | Last name | 170 | 44,535 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 "BILLIG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Swedish | cheap. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-i-i-l-l" | |
-2 letters: bill, gill, glib. | |
-3 letters: big, gib, ill, lib. | |
-4 letters: bi, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-i-i-l-l" | |
+1 letter: billing. | |
+2 letters: billings, eligible, eligibly, libeling. | |
+3 letters: bilingual, billeting, billowing, bollixing, brailling, eligibles, illegible, illegibly, libelling, litigable, rebilling. | |
+4 letters: belittling, bibliology, bilinguals, biological, blindingly, gimballing, ineligible, legibility, misbilling, negligible, negligibly, obligingly, prebilling, reeligible. | |
+5 letters: abiological, backfilling, bedevilling, beguilingly, bilingually, biologicals, bullbaiting, bulletining, cockbilling, eligibility, fireballing, gibberellin, globalising, globalizing, gullibility, highballing, ineligibles, labializing, mislabeling, overbilling. | |
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