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place·ment/ˈpleɪ̯smənt/noun

placement is spelled P-L-A-C-E-M-E-N-T: 9 letters and 2 syllables (place·ment). It appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, placement means “The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of placement is placements.

How many letters and syllables are in placement?

Letters9: P-L-A-C-E-M-E-N-T
Syllables2: place·ment
In writing11 times per million words; the 6,674th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is placement?

Placement appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th 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 placement?

  • US /ˈpleɪ̯smənt/
  • US [ˈpʰleɪ̯smn̩t]
  • /ˈpleːsmənt/

Placement has 2 syllables, split place·ment in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-placement.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of placement

  • placements plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does placement mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.

  2. 2

    A location or position.

    It seems to me that the placement of that poster could be better.

  3. 3

    The act of matching a person with a job.

    The agency does not guarantee placement, but they work on commission.

  4. 4

    UKA temporary posting of a person to a particular workplace to enable them to gain work experience.

  5. 5

    The zodiacal region of the sky in which the sun, moon, or a planet appears at the time and place of a person's birth.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Placement in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchplacement (the act of placing or putting in place)
GermanPlatzierung (the act of placing or putting in place), Stelle (a location or position), Stellenvermittlung (the act of matching a person with a job)
Portuguesecolocação, posicionamento (the act of placing or putting in place)
Spanishcolocación, emplazamiento, ponimiento (the act of placing or putting in place)

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 placement come from?

From place + -ment.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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