dislocation
/dɪsləʊˈkeɪʃn̩/noun
dislocation is spelled D-I-S-L-O-C-A-T-I-O-N: 11 letters and 4 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,063rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dislocation means “The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dislocation is dislocations.
How many letters and syllables are in dislocation?
| Letters | 11: D-I-S-L-O-C-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 34,063rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is dislocation?
Dislocation appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,063rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce dislocation?
- UK /dɪsləʊˈkeɪʃn̩/
Dislocation has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-dislocation.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with dislocation?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as dislocation from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃn/, British pronunciation):
- migration
- authentication
- remediation
- implantation
- congratulation
- transmutation
- legitimation
- prorogation
- financialization
- intercommunication
- profanation
- axiomatization
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of dislocation
- dislocations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dislocation mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
- 2
The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied.
- 3
The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
- 4
A linear defect in a crystal lattice. Because dislocations can shift within the crystal lattice, they tend to weaken the material, compared to a perfect crystal.
- 5
A sentence structure in which a constituent that could otherwise be either an argument or an adjunct of a clause occurs outside of and adjacent to the clause boundaries.
- 6
In men's gymnastics, a rotating of the shoulders when performing a backwards turn on the still rings. Many skills in acrobatics appear to involve dislocating a joint, when they actually do not.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dislocation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | deslocamento, deslocação , luxação |
| French | luxation |
| German | Verrenkung, Luxation |
| Spanish | luxación, dislocación, lujación, descoyuntamiento, dislocadura |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does dislocation come from?
From Middle English, from Old French, a borrowing from Medieval Latin dislocātiō, delocatio.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).