royalty
French, noun\ʁwa.jal.ti\
royalty is spelled R-O-Y-A-L-T-Y (7 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 94,626th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Royalty is a French feminine noun meaning “royalty (all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Redevance, droits d’auteur”.
What does royalty mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineroyalty (all senses)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Redevance, droits d’auteur.
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 royalty
- royalties plural
- royaltie
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce royalty?
- \ʁwa.jal.ti\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to royalty
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is royalty in French?
royalty appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).