loquacious
/ləʊˈkweɪʃəs/
"loquacious" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“loquacious” is uncommon English (frequency #83,468 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,468
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Talkative; chatty.
Corpus desk
Index EN-loquacious · loquacious · English
loquacious · rank #83,468 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,468
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Lothario
Nearest frequency peer: Lothario (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “loquacious”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- LINQ
LINQ
16,540 corpus weight
- Litvinenko
Litvinenko
16,538 corpus weight
- longhouse
longhouse
16,535 corpus weight
- loquacious
loquacious
16,533 corpus weight
- Lothario
Lothario
16,532 corpus weight
- LPR
LPR
16,529 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “loquacious” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loquacious |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ləʊˈkweɪʃəs/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “loquacious” in English
Rare enough to double-check
loquacious is uncommon English at frequency #83,468 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ləʊˈkweɪʃəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Talkative; chatty.".
Zero misspellings are on record for loquacious in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin loquāx, loquācis (“talkative”) + -ous. The correct English form is loquacious, spelled L-O-Q-U-A-C-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Talkative; chatty.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how loquacious appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On the other hand, Hetty was moody and silent. She was never loquacious, or if she occasionally became communicative, it was under the influence of some temporary excitement that served to arouse her unsophisticated mind; but, for hours at a time, in the course of this all-important day, she seemed to have absolutely lost the use of her tongue.
"[…]and as Mr. H., with his long purse and his willingness to receive hints, is no bad card in the game, he has been brought up to Abbotsford for a week; his taciturnity has long ago fled, and he is one of the most loquacious Borderers going. […]"
Etymology
From Latin loquāx, loquācis (“talkative”) + -ous.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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