viceroyalty
/vaɪsˈɹɔɪəlti/noun
viceroyalty is a noun meaning “The office or term of service of a viceroy; viceroydom” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-C-E-R-O-Y-A-L-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of viceroyalty is viceroyalties.
What does viceroyalty mean?
noun
- 1
The office or term of service of a viceroy; viceroydom.
- 2
The place governed by a viceroy.
India became a viceroyalty when the British government directly annexed it in the 1850s.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce viceroyalty?
- /vaɪsˈɹɔɪəlti/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-viceroyalty.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of viceroyalty
- viceroyalties plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is viceroyalty?
Viceroyalty appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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).
Viceroyalty in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense place governed by a viceroy:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Vizekönigreich |
| Portuguese | vice-reinado |
| Spanish | virreinato, virreino |
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 viceroyalty come from?
From vice- + royalty, modeled on French vice-royauté.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).