Which to use
“position” is a noun and “positioned” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #624
- “position” frequency rank
- #9,796
- “positioned” frequency rank
- 10420
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | position | positioned |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | A place or location. | Being in a particular position; (figuratively) suitable. |
Letter map: position vs positioned
Shared letters muted; letters that set position and positioned apart highlighted. Shared run: 8.
Part-of-speech tell for position / positioned
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: position is anoun and positionedanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “position” sits inside “positioned”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10420, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
position is recorded at frequency rank #624, classified as anoun, pronounced /pəˈzɪʃ.ən/. positioned is at rank #9,796, tagged as anadj.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 10420, this pair ranks #492,435 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of position vs positioned
Shared letters: inopst. Private to "position": -. Private to "positioned": de.
"position" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC · "positioned" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- position ← opsition · poistion · posiiton · posision · positino · positionn · positoin · posittion
- positioned ← opsitioned · poistioned · posiitoned · positinoed · positioend · positionde · positionedd · positionned
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
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- Full dictionary entry for "position" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "positioned" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #492,435 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "position" and "positioned" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "position vs positron". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #492,435 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.