royalty

Other forms of royalty

plural

royalties·

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 royalty

What does royalty mean?

royalty means "payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in royalty?

royalty has 3 syllables: ro-yal-ty. The stress falls on "ro". In IPA it is /ˈɹɔɪəlti/.

What is another word for royalty?

Close synonyms include royal family, royal line, royal house. 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.

Is royalty a common word?

royalty is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.