placement

Other forms of placement

plural

placements·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about placement

What does placement mean?

placement means "the spatial property of the way in which something is placed". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in placement?

placement has 2 syllables: place-ment. The stress falls on "place". In IPA it is /ˈpleɪsmənt/.

What is another word for placement?

Close synonyms include arrangement, location, locating, position, positioning. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is placement a common word?

placement is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with placement?

2 words rhyme with placement. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.