loyaliste
\lwa.ja.list\
The verdict
“loyaliste” is uncommon French (frequency #65,284 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,284
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui a des sentiments de loyalisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loyaliste · loyaliste · French
loyaliste · rank #65,284 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,284
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lorientais
Nearest frequency peer: Lorientais (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « loyaliste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- literary
literary
34,720 corpus weight
- Loisy
Loisy
34,719 corpus weight
- Lorientais
Lorientais
34,718 corpus weight
- loyaliste
loyaliste
34,717 corpus weight
- Ludlow
Ludlow
34,716 corpus weight
- luxembourge…
luxembourgeoises
34,715 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « loyaliste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loyaliste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lwa.ja.list\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « loyaliste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
loyaliste is uncommon French at frequency #65,284 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lwa.ja.list\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
loyaliste doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is loyaliste, spelled L-O-Y-A-L-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui a des sentiments de loyalisme.
- 2Habitant des colonies anglaises ayant déclaré leur indépendance pour fonder les États-Unis resté loyal à la Couronne d'Angleterre et ayant par conséquent déménagé au nord dans ce qui constitue le Canada actuel (principalement en Ontario, au Québec, au Nouveau-Brunswick et en Nouvelle-Écosse).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how loyaliste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un loyaliste pouvait vous tuer s’il vous imaginait complice, un conjuré si vous étiez sur la liste des personnes à éliminer.
On établit souvent des parallèles entre les Acadiens et les loyalistes comme éléments fondateurs de la Nouvelle-Écosse et du Nouveau-Brunswick, soit le départ forcé de l'un et l'arrivée forcée de l'autre. On dit aussi que les loyalistes ont repris les anciennes terres des Acadiens.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).