locale
/loʊˈkæl/noun
locale is spelled L-O-C-A-L-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,649th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, locale means “The place where something happens” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of locale is locales.
How many letters and syllables are in locale?
| Letters | 6: L-O-C-A-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 29,649th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is locale?
Locale appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,649th 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 locale?
- UK /ləʊˈkɑːl/
- US /loʊˈkæl/
Locale 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-locale.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with locale?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as locale from its last stressed vowel (/æl/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of locale
- locales plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does locale mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The place where something happens.
Being near running water and good shade, the explorers decided it was a good locale for setting up camp.
- 2
The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.
- 3
A partially ordered set with the following additional axiomatic properties: any finite subset of it has a meet, any arbitrary subset of it has a join, and distributivity, which states that a binary meet distributes with respect to an arbitrary join. (Note: locales are just like frames except that the category of locales is opposite to the category of frames.)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Locale in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | lieu, endroit , paramètres régionaux, localisation |
| German | Ort, Örtlichkeit, Platz, Stelle , Gebietsschema, Gebietsschemaparameter |
| Spanish | lugar , configuración regional |
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 locale come from?
From French local (adj), nominal use of the adjective.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).