Billabong

Definitions: Billabong

Billabong

Noun

1. (Australian) a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently.

2. A branch of a river running to a dead end.

Note: Billabong \Bil"la*bong`\, noun. [Native name.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Billabong

Domain	Definitions
Geography	A blind channel leading out from a river; a backwater. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: Billabong

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Billabong (1968)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Billabong

Domain	Title
Books	Billabong Dreaming: An Australian Adventure (reference) Billabong Tales (reference) Billabong Valley: Seven Fast-Paced Adventures (reference) Burn to billabong : Macdonald clansfolk in Australia, 1788-1988 (reference) Down at the Billabong (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Billabong Tales: The Cranky Crocodile from Curramulka Creek (reference) Billabong Tales:Cranky Crocodile (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Billabong

"Billabong" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Billabong" is used about 9 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 (singular)	88.89%	8	124,375
Noun (proper)	11.11%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	9	N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Billabong

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
billabong	1,668	billabong rashguards	14
billabong clothing	160	billabong board surf	14
billabong swim wear	113	billabong wallpaper	13
billabong clothes	55	billabong sweatshirt	13
billabong swimsuit	44	billabong t shirt	11
billabong bathing suit	43	billabong shirt	10
billabong girl	43	billabong apparel	10
billabong board shorts	40	billabong surfing	10
billabong bikini	39	billabong wallet	10
billabong boardshorts	35	billabong rashguard	9
billabong logo	28	billabong backpack	9
billabong watch	23	billabong product	8
billabong shorts	23	billabong pro	8
billabong hat	22	billabong swim	8
billabong guard rash	17	billabong swim suit	8
billabong sticker	17	billabong wet suit	8
billabong surf	16	billabong girl swim wear	7
billabong wetsuits	16	billabong australia	7
billabong odyssey	15	billabong catalog	7
billabong store	14	billabong usa	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Billabong

Language		Translations for "billabong"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		blind fodarm, bagvand (backwater, white water). (various references)

Dutch		doodlopende zijarm. (various references)

Finnish		laskujoeton joenhaara, eristetty joenhaara. (various references)

French		défluent sans exutoire. (various references)

German		abflussloser Flussarm. (various references)

Greek		τυφλός βραχίων ποταμού. (various references)

Hungarian		holtág (backwater, dead channel). (various references)

Italian		ramo morto (abandoned channel, abandoned meander, cutoff meander, old arm, old bed, old branch, oxbow). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		河跡湖 (crescentic lake, oxbow lake). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かせき�" (crescentic lake, oxbow lake). (various references)

Pig Latin		illabongbay

Portuguese		billabong, afluente sem canal de drenagem. (various references)

Swedish		avsnörd flodarm. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Billabong

Derivations
	Words beginning with "billabong": billabongs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Billabong" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bilibong, billibong. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Billabong

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-b-g-i-l-l-n-o"
	-2 letters: balling, bolling, lobbing.
	-3 letters: albino, bagnio, baling, ballon, bilboa, billon, gabion, gallon, gibbon, global, globin, goblin, liblab.
	-4 letters: aboil, algin, align, aloin, along, bilbo, binal, bingo, blain, bogan, boing, glial, goban, gonia, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, llano, logan, logia, nabob.
	-5 letters: agin, agio, agon, anil, bail, ball, bang, bani, bill, blab, blin, blob, boil.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-b-g-i-l-l-n-o"
	+1 letter: billabongs.
	+3 letters: billboarding.
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