billy: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 10 letter points · starts with B · ends with Y
Meaning of billy
noun
A fellow, companion, comrade, mate; partner, brother.
- Geordie
A good friend.
A billy goat.
- UK, obsolete, slang
A silk handkerchief.
Listed forms: billies.
Source: Wiktionary — billy.
noun
A highwayman's club, billy club.
A slubbing or roving machine.
- Australia, New-Zealand
A tin with a swing handle used to boil tea over an open fire; a billycan; a billypot.
Example: Let's get the billy and cook some beans.
- Australia, slang
A bong for smoking marijuana.
Listed forms: billies.
Source: Wiktionary — billy.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for billy.
noun
a short stout club used primarily by policemen
- truncheon
- nightstick
- baton
- billystick
- billy club
noun
male goat
- billy goat
- he-goat
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is billy in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of billy
B(3) + I(1) + L(1) + L(1) + Y(4) = 10 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of billy
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from billy
9 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in billy. Showing up to 24, longest first.