loquacité
\lɔ.ka.si.te\
The verdict
“loquacité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitude de parler beaucoup ; tendance au bavardage ; état de celui ou de celle qui est loquace.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loquacite · loquacité · French
loquacité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loquacité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ.ka.si.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
loquacité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɔ.ka.si.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for loquacité in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is loquacité, spelled L-O-Q-U-A-C-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Habitude de parler beaucoup ; tendance au bavardage ; état de celui ou de celle qui est loquace.
- 2Logorrhée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how loquacité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette rencontre était de nature à vivement frapper madame de Staël ; à son retour au château, elle en parla peu, malgré le besoin d’expansion qui, chez elle, dégénérait en loquacité ; mais elle en parut fortement préoccupée.
Quoique très instruite, elle n’avoit ni les caprices, ni l’humeur qu’on attribue aux gens de lettres, qui tantôt se livrent à une loquacité importune, tantôt se renferment dans un silence méprisant.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.