position
po·si·tion/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/noun, verb
position is spelled P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N, 3 syllables: po·si·tion. The wrong spelling people search most is postion: about 250 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 24 of all searches for the word. Position is a noun meaning “A place or location”. The plural of position is positions.
How many letters and syllables are in position?
| Letters | 8: P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: po·si·tion |
| In writing | 162 times per million words; the 625th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, postion, about 250 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell position?
Position is spelled P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for position in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is position?
Position appears 162 times per million words in written English, the 625th 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 position?
- US /pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
- US [pəˈzɪʃ.n̩]
- /pəˈzəʃ.ən/
Position has 3 syllables, split po·si·tion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-position.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-position.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with position?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as position from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃən/):
- competition
- opposition
- permission
- composition
- acquisition
- coalition
- physician
- politician
- admission
- nutrition
- expedition
- ambition
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 position
- positions plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- positioning participle, present
- positioned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does position mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A place or location.
- 2
A post of employment; a job.
- 3
A status or rank.
Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army.
- 4
An opinion, stand, or stance.
My position on this issue is unchanged.
- 5
A posture.
Stand in this position, with your arms at your side.
- 6
A situation suitable to perform some action.
The school is not a inposition to provide day-care after 4:00 pm.
- 7
A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
Stop running all over the field and play your position!
- 8
An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
long position
verb
- 1
To put into place.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate position?
Wiktionary records 4 abbreviations of position: PVT, posish, posit, posn..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Position in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | position, place , poste , capable, avoir la capacité de |
| German | Stellung, Position, Platz, Stelle , Arbeitsplatz , positionieren |
| Portuguese | posição , cargo , posicionar |
| Spanish | posición , puesto |
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 position come from?
From Middle English posicioun, from Old French posicion, from Latin positiō (“a putting, position”), from positus (“placed, situated”), past participle of pōnō (“to place”); see ponent. Compare apposition, composition, deposition; see pose.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).