loquacité
French, noun/lɔ.ka.si.te/
loquacité is spelled L-O-Q-U-A-C-I-T-É (9 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written French, the 219,133rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Loquacité is a French feminine noun meaning “talkativeness (quality of being talkative)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Habitude de parler beaucoup ; tendance au bavardage ; état de celui ou de celle qui est loquace”.
What does loquacité mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetalkativeness (quality of being talkative)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Habitude de parler beaucoup ; tendance au bavardage ; état de celui ou de celle qui est loquace. 2. Logorrhée.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of loquacité
- loquacités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce loquacité?
- /lɔ.ka.si.te/
- /lɔ.kwa.si.te/
- \lɔ.ka.si.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to loquacité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is loquacité in French?
loquacité appears about once in every 48 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).