BILLY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BILLY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BILLY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BILLY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BILLY
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
billyoChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How BILLY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BILLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 348,553.
What stands out about BILLY
- The letters of BILLY run in alphabetical order from first to last.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BILLY mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalNorth American
A stout wooden or rubber club that a police officer carries on a belt and can swing as a weapon.
American police forces borrowed billy from an old slang term for a stick or bludgeon, and the word stuck to the wooden club officers carried while walking a beat. In Australian and New Zealand English the same spelling names something completely different, the billy or billycan campers hang over a fire to boil water for tea, so a billy in one country has nothing to do with a billy in the other beyond the shared name. Both uses trace back further still to billy as an old nickname for a male goat, though that sense is rarely used today.
How BILLY is used
The club sense is chiefly North American and sounds a little dated beside "baton"; the camping-pot sense is everyday Australian and New Zealand vocabulary.
- The officer carried a billy on his belt.
- Old films show patrolmen twirling a billy as they walked their beat.
- Campers filled the billy with creek water and set it on the coals.
- He swung the billy in a lazy arc while making tea.
- The museum displayed a nineteenth-century billy used by the city police.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BILLY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BILLY
10 longer words begin with BILLY.
Words ending in BILLY
3 words end in BILLY. Useful as a back hook: play BILLY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in BILLY
Common questions about BILLY
- Is BILLY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BILLY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BILLY worth?
- BILLY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BILLY mean?
- A stout wooden or rubber club that a police officer carries on a belt and can swing as a weapon.
- What letters can be added to BILLY?
- BILLY takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BILLY:
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