loquacious
/loʊˈkweɪʃəs/adjective
loquacious is spelled L-O-Q-U-A-C-I-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is loquatious: about 220 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 24 of all searches for the word. Loquacious is an adjective meaning “Talkative; chatty”.
How many letters and syllables are in loquacious?
| Letters | 10: L-O-Q-U-A-C-I-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 8 million words; the 83,271st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, loquatious, about 220 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell loquacious?
Loquacious is spelled L-O-Q-U-A-C-I-O-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 24 of the searches for loquacious 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 loquacious?
Loquacious appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 83,271st 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 loquacious?
- UK /ləʊˈkweɪʃəs/
- US /loʊˈkweɪʃəs/
Loquacious has 3 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: En-us-loquacious.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with loquacious?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as loquacious from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃəs/):
- tenacious
- audacious
- herbaceous
- ostentatious
- efficacious
- rapacious
- sebaceous
- pugnacious
- perspicacious
- argillaceous
- contumacious
- pertinacious
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 loquacious
- more loquacious comparative
- most loquacious superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does loquacious mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Talkative; chatty.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Loquacious in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense talkative, chatty:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | loquace |
| German | gesprächig, redselig, geschwätzig, schwatzhaft, mitteilsam |
| Portuguese | loquaz |
| Spanish | locuaz |
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 loquacious come from?
From Latin loquāx, loquācis (“talkative”) + -ous or from loquacity + -ous, ultimately from Latin loquor + -acious.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).