location
/ləʊˈkeɪʃən/
"location" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“location” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #1,461 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,461
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A particular point or place in physical space.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | location |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,461 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “location” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for location is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,461 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for location, with forms such as "lcoation", "llocation", and "loaction". 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. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "lotion", "locator", "locations", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion. The correct English form is location, spelled L-O-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1A particular point or place in physical space.
- 2An act of locating.
- 3An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.
- 4A leasing on rent.
- 5A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
- 6The 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
- 7An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lcoation,llocation,loaction,locaiton,locasion,locatino,locationn,locatoin,locattion,loccation,loctaion,olcation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of location - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “location”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-O-C-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “lotion” - see the side-by-side comparison. location vs lotion
- 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.