# population

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˌpɒp.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/ · frequency rank #1,056

## Definitions
1. The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
2. The people with a given characteristic.
3. A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
4. A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
5. A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
6. A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
7. The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
8. General population.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus, equivalent to populate + -ion. Doublet of poblacion.

## Common misspellings (15)
`oppulation`, `popluation`, `poppulation`, `popualtion`, `populaiton`, `populasion`, `populatino`, `populationn`, `populatoin`, `populattion`, `popullation`, `popultaion`, `pouplation`, `ppopulation`, `ppoulation`

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