displacement
/dɪsˈpleɪsmɪnt/noun
displacement is spelled D-I-S-P-L-A-C-E-M-E-N-T: 12 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 4.3 times per million words in written English, the 12,397th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, displacement means “The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of displacement is displacements.
How many letters and syllables are in displacement?
| Letters | 12: D-I-S-P-L-A-C-E-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.3 times per million words; the 12,397th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is displacement?
Displacement appears 4.3 times per million words in written English, the 12,397th 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 displacement?
- /dɪsˈpleɪsmɪnt/
- /dɪzˈpleɪsmənt/
Displacement has 3 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-displacement.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of displacement
- displacements plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does displacement 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; a putting out of place.
- 2
The 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.
- 3
datedThe 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.
- 4
Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
- 5
A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
- 6
The 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).
- 7
The transfer of feelings or emotions from their intended recipient to another object or person.
- 8
The amount of liquid displaced by a submerged object.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Displacement in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Verstellung, Verlagerung, Vertreibung, Verschiebung, Verdrängung, Versatz |
| Portuguese | deslocamento |
| Spanish | desplazamiento , cilindrada, cubicaje |
| French | déplacement |
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 displacement come from?
From French déplacement. Morphologically displace + -ment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).