royalties

/\ʁwa.jal.ti\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#40,977

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

royalties is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de royalty. Pronounced \ʁwa.jal.ti\. Often confused with royales.

Key facts for royalties
PropertyValue
Headwordroyalties
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁwa.jal.ti\
Letters9
Frequency rank#40,977
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of royalties in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for royalties is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁwa.jal.ti\. Corpus data places it at rank #40,977 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for royalties, with forms such as "oryalties", "roaylties", and "royalites". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "royales", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is royalties, spelled R-O-Y-A-L-T-I-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de royalty.
  2. 2
    Commission monétaire reversée en fonction d’un pourcentage de chiffre d’affaires.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: oryalties,roaylties,royalites,royallties,royalteis,royaltiess,royaltise,royaltties,royatlies,roylaties,royyalties,rroyalties,ryoalties

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for royalties

Misspelling Variants of "royalties"

oryalties9roaylties9royalites9royallties10royalteis9royaltiess10royaltise9royaltties10
Misspelling Variants of "royalties"

Frequency rank: #40,977 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "royalties"?
"royalties" is spelled R-O-Y-A-L-T-I-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁwa.jal.ti\.
What does "royalties" mean?
As a noun, "royalties" means: Pluriel de royalty.
What words are commonly confused with "royalties"?
"royalties" is commonly confused with "royales". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "royalties"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "royalties" is \ʁwa.jal.ti\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "royalties" come from?
"royalties" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.