# position

> English word · Noun · IPA /pəˈzɪʃ.ən/ · frequency rank #624

## Definitions
1. A place or location.
2. A post of employment; a job.
3. A status or rank.
4. An opinion, stand, or stance.
5. A posture.
6. A situation suitable to perform some action.
7. A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
8. An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
9. A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
10. A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
11. The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
12. The order in which players are seated around the table.
13. A pin; a connector.

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **potion** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/position-vs-potion)
- **positive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/position-vs-positive)
- **positron** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/position-vs-positron)
- **positions** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/position-vs-positions)
- **positioned** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/position-vs-positioned)
- **positional** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/position-vs-positional)
- **portion** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/portion-vs-position)
- **petition** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/petition-vs-position)

## Common misspellings (12)
`opsition`, `poistion`, `posiiton`, `posision`, `positino`, `positionn`, `positoin`, `posittion`, `possition`, `postiion`, `pposition`, `psoition`

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