billing
/ˈbɪlɪŋ/noun, verb
billing is spelled B-I-L-L-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.9 times per million words in written English, the 13,127th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, billing means “Amounts billed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of billing is billings.
How many letters and syllables are in billing?
| Letters | 7: B-I-L-L-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.9 times per million words; the 13,127th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is billing?
Billing appears 3.9 times per million words in written English, the 13,127th 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 billing?
- /ˈbɪlɪŋ/
Billing has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-billing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of billing
- billings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does billing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Amounts billed.
- 2
Accounts receivable.
- 3
The tracking of bills and amounts owed; the department within an institution or business that deals with the tracking of bills and amounts owed.
- 4
The act or situation of including someone or something among those that make up a complete list.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of bill
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Billing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense amount claimed:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | facturation |
| Spanish | facturación |
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.