billy

Other forms of billy

plural

billies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about billy

What does billy mean?

billy means "a short stout club used primarily by policemen". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in billy?

billy has 2 syllables: bil-ly. The stress falls on "bil". In IPA it is /ˈbɪli/.

What is another word for billy?

Close synonyms include truncheon, nightstick, baton, billystick, billy club. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is billy a common word?

billy is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with billy?

1 word rhymes with billy. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.