gas station
/ˈɡæs stɛɪːʃən/
"gas-station" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gas station” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An establishment which sells gasoline (petrol) and often also diesel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gas station |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡæs stɛɪːʃən/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gas station” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for gas station is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɡæs stɛɪːʃən/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An establishment which sells gasoline (petrol) and often also diesel.".
gas station has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is gas station, spelled G-A-S- -S-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1An establishment which sells gasoline (petrol) and often also diesel.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “gas station”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-A-S- -S-T-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈɡæs stɛɪːʃən/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.