position
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#709
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
position is aFrenchnoun. It means: Situation dans une structure, place dans un ensemble de coordonnées ; lieu, point où une chose est placée, situation. Pronounced \po.zi.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #709 in French word frequency. Often confused with potion and positive.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | position |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \po.zi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for position is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \po.zi.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #709 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for position, with forms such as "opsition", "poistion", and "posiiton". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "potion", "positive", "punition", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is position, spelled P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Situation dans une structure, place dans un ensemble de coordonnées ; lieu, point où une chose est placée, situation.
- 2Terrain choisi pour y placer un corps de troupes destiné à quelque opération militaire ; terrain occupé par l’ennemi.
- 3Posture d’une personne, manière dont une chose est posée.
- 4Situation et posture des corps durant l’acte d’amour.
- 5Manière de poser les pieds, l’un par rapport à l’autre.
- 6Manière de placer la main gauche sur le manche d’un instrument à cordes.
- 7Point de doctrine contenus dans une thèse. D’où, au pluriel, long résumé d'une thèse académique, précisant les principaux points abordés.
- 8Point de vue ; avis.
- 9Situation, circonstances où l’on se trouve.
- 10Condition, emploi, place.
- 11État des fonds.
- 12Attitude prescrite par le règlement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opsition,poistion,posiiton,positino,positionn,positoin,posittion,possition,postiion,pposition,psoition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for position
Misspelling Variants of "position"
Frequency rank: #709 in French
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