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SHORT ANSWER

How do you spell royalty-free?

R-O-Y-A-L-T-Y hyphen F-R-E-E

Royalty-free is spelled R-O-Y-A-L-T-Y, a hyphen, then F-R-E-E. The hyphen is standard when the phrase modifies a noun, as in a royalty-free image library. It means no recurring fees are owed per use, which is exactly how Cheap Image Library licenses its files.

Spelling tip

Hyphenate it when it sits before a noun (royalty-free image); the noun royalty ends in -ty, not -tie.

What it means

Royalty-free means you pay once, or nothing at all, and then use the picture without further per-use fees. Most of what an image library offers today is royalty-free.

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