displacement
/dɪsˈpleɪsmɪnt/
"displacement" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“displacement” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #12,404 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #12,404
- frequency rank, English
- 12
- letters
- 19
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | displacement |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɪsˈpleɪsmɪnt/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #12,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “displacement” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for displacement is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɪsˈpleɪsmɪnt/. Corpus data places it at rank #12,404 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for displacement, with forms such as "ddisplacement", "dipslacement", and "dislpacement". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French déplacement. Morphologically displace + -ment. The correct English form is displacement, spelled D-I-S-P-L-A-C-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
- 2The weight of a ship or other floating vessel, traditionally measured or calculated by finding the volume of the vessel below the waterline when afloat, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the whole displacing body.
- 3The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.
- 4Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
- 5A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
- 6The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that existed or will exist at another time, or that exist at another location).
- 7The transfer of feelings or emotions from their intended recipient to another object or person.
- 8The amount of liquid displaced by a submerged object.
- 9The transfer of electricity along tubes of induction and thereby polarizing a dielectric.
- 10Ellipsis of engine displacement.
Etymology
From French déplacement. Morphologically displace + -ment.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddisplacement,dipslacement,dislpacement,dispalcement,displaccement,displaceemnt,displacemennt,displacementt,displacemetn,displacemment,displacemnet,displacmeent,displaecment,displcaement,displlacement,dispplacement,dissplacement,dsiplacement,idsplacement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of displacement - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “displacement”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-I-S-P-L-A-C-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /dɪsˈpleɪsmɪnt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.