# location

> English word · Noun · IPA /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/ · frequency rank #1,461

## Definitions
1. A particular point or place in physical space.
2. An act of locating.
3. An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.
4. A leasing on rent.
5. A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
6. The 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.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.

## Easily confused with
- **lotion** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/location-vs-lotion)
- **locator** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/location-vs-locator)
- **locations** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/location-vs-locations)
- **legation** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/legation-vs-location)
- **lactation** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lactation-vs-location)

## Common misspellings (12)
`lcoation`, `llocation`, `loaction`, `locaiton`, `locasion`, `locatino`, `locationn`, `locatoin`, `locattion`, `loccation`, `loctaion`, `olcation`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/location