loyalty

Other forms of loyalty

plural

loyalties·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about loyalty

What does loyalty mean?

loyalty means "the quality of being loyal". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in loyalty?

loyalty has 3 syllables: lo-yal-ty. The stress falls on "lo". In IPA it is /ˈlɔɪəlti/.

What is another word for loyalty?

Close synonyms include trueness, commitment, allegiance, dedication. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of loyalty?

The recorded antonyms are disloyalty.

Is loyalty a common word?

loyalty is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.