billiards
bil·liards/ˈbɪl.jɚdz/noun
billiards is spelled B-I-L-L-I-A-R-D-S: 9 letters and 2 syllables (bil·liards). It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,320th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, billiards means “A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in billiards?
| Letters | 9: B-I-L-L-I-A-R-D-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: bil·liards |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 35,320th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is billiards?
Billiards appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,320th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce billiards?
- UK /ˈbɪlɪədz/
- US /ˈbɪl.jɚdz/
Billiards has 2 syllables, split bil·liards in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-billiards.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does billiards mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
UKA two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.
He was playing billiards in the casino.
- 2
USAny of various games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue.
- 3
plural of billiard
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Billiards in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any cue sport:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.