location
/loʊˈkeɪʃən/noun
location is spelled L-O-C-A-T-I-O-N: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 72 times per million words in written English, the 1,457th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, location means “A particular point or place in physical space” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of location is locations.
How many letters and syllables are in location?
| Letters | 8: L-O-C-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 72 times per million words; the 1,457th 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 location?
Location appears 72 times per million words in written English, the 1,457th 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 location?
- UK /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/
- US /loʊˈkeɪʃən/
Location 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: En-us-location.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with location?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as location from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):
- situation
- association
- population
- administration
- operation
- organization
- application
- generation
- foundation
- conversation
- investigation
- communication
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 location
- locations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does location mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A particular point or place in physical space.
- 2
An act of locating.
The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.
- 3
An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.
- 4
A leasing on rent.
- 5
ScotlandA contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
- 6
USThe marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc
- 7
An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate location?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of location: asl, lo, locn.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Location in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | lieu, localisation, situation, emplacement, position |
| German | Lage, Ort, Platz, Standort , Ortsbestimmung, Ortsermittlung |
| Portuguese | local, localização |
| Spanish | ubicación, locación, localización |
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 location come from?
Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).