juxtaposition
/ˌd͡ʒʌk.stə.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/noun, verb
juxtaposition is spelled J-U-X-T-A-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is juxtoposition: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 119 of all searches for the word. Juxtaposition is a noun meaning “The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter”. The plural of juxtaposition is juxtapositions.
How many letters and syllables are in juxtaposition?
| Letters | 13: J-U-X-T-A-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 30,418th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, juxtoposition, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell juxtaposition?
Juxtaposition is spelled J-U-X-T-A-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 119 of the searches for juxtaposition in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is juxtaposition?
Juxtaposition appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,418th 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 juxtaposition?
- US /ˌd͡ʒʌk.stə.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
- Australia /ˌd͡ʒɐk.stə.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
- /ˌd͡ʒɐk.stə.pəˈzəʃ.ən/
Juxtaposition has 5 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-juxtaposition.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with juxtaposition?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as juxtaposition from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃən/):
- position
- competition
- opposition
- permission
- composition
- acquisition
- coalition
- physician
- politician
- admission
- nutrition
- expedition
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 juxtaposition
- juxtapositions plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- juxta-position
- juxtapositioning participle, present
- juxtapositioned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does juxtaposition mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
- 2
An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
Example: mother father instead of mother and father
- 3
An absence of operators in an expression.
Using juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. a#92;timesb collapses to ab.
- 4
The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.
- 5
Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.
The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.
- 6
The close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist.
Example: In 1965 the government was elected; in 1965 the economy took a dive.
verb
- 1
To place in juxtaposition.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Juxtaposition in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | juxtaposition |
| Portuguese | justaposição |
| German | Juxtaposition , Gegenüberstellung |
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 juxtaposition come from?
Borrowed from French juxtaposition, from Latin iuxtā (“near”) (from Latin iungō (“to join”)) + French position (“position”) (from Latin pōnō (“to place”)).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).