Billings
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The verdict
“Billings” is uncommon German (frequency #85,024 among 72,680 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,024
- frequency rank, German
- 72,680
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - größte Stadt im US-Bundesstaat Montana
| 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) |
Where “Billings” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Billings is uncommon German at frequency #85,024 among 72,680 “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
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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Using “Billings”
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- The one correct German spelling is B-I-L-L-I-N-G-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.