Billings
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The verdict
“Billings” is uncommon German (frequency #85,024 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,024
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - größte Stadt im US-Bundesstaat Montana
Corpus desk
Index DE-billings · Billings · German
Billings · rank #85,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,024
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bille
Nearest frequency peer: bille (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Billings“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bezirksstaa…
Bezirksstaatsanwalt
14,980 corpus weight
- bille
bille
14,978 corpus weight
- Billings
Billings
14,977 corpus weight
- Biometrie
Biometrie
14,975 corpus weight
- bissiger
bissiger
14,974 corpus weight
- Bistümern
Bistümern
14,973 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Billings“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Billings |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Billings“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Billings is uncommon German at frequency #85,024 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "größte Stadt im US-Bundesstaat Montana".
Billings doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Billings, spelled B-I-L-L-I-N-G-S.
Definition
- 1größte Stadt im US-Bundesstaat Montana
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Billings appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Dann nahmen wir ein Sutton Place Townhome mit unbekanntem Ziel und landeten schließlich in Billings, Montana.“
„Als die Streifenbeamten drinnen waren, hatte er ihnen erzählt, er gehöre dem LAPD an un der Übeltäter sei ein Kiffer, den er nach San Quentin gebracht habe - David Haskins, und in Wahrheit vor Kurzem an einer Überdosis in Billings, Montana, verstorben.“
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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