allegiance
al·le·giance/əˈliː.d͡ʒəns/noun
allegiance is spelled A-L-L-E-G-I-A-N-C-E, 3 syllables: al·le·giance. The wrong spelling people search most is allegience: about 360 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Allegiance is a noun meaning “Loyalty or commitment to a cause, group, nation or of a subordinate to a superior”. The plural of allegiance is allegiances.
How many letters and syllables are in allegiance?
| Letters | 10: A-L-L-E-G-I-A-N-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: al·le·giance |
| In writing | 4.9 times per million words; the 11,373rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, allegience, about 360 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell allegiance?
Allegiance is spelled A-L-L-E-G-I-A-N-C-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for allegiance in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is allegiance?
Allegiance appears 4.9 times per million words in written English, the 11,373rd 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 allegiance?
- /əˈliː.d͡ʒəns/
Allegiance has 3 syllables, split al·le·giance in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-allegiance.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of allegiance
- allegiances plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does allegiance mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Loyalty or commitment to a cause, group, nation or of a subordinate to a superior.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Allegiance in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fidélité, loyauté, allégeance |
| German | Treue, Loyalität, Treuherzigkeit, Gefolgschaft, Gefolgschaftstreue |
| Portuguese | fidelidade, lealdade, adesão, filiação |
| Spanish | fidelidad, lealtad, pleitesía (disused) |
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.
Where does allegiance come from?
From Middle English alegiaunce, from Anglo-Norman alegaunce (“loyalty of a liege-servant to one's lord”), variant of Old French ligeance, from lige (“vassal, liegeman”). More at liege.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).