nuclear power station

noun

"nuclear-power-station" is a 19-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“nuclear power station” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
21
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A power station that obtains its primary energy from the heat generated in nuclear reactions.

Corpus desk

Index EN-nuclear-power-station · nuclear power station · English

nuclear power station · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 21 letters
  • VOW-8 8 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "N" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for nuclear power station
PropertyValue
Headwordnuclear power station
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “nuclear power station” in English

nuclear power stationranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

nuclear power station is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A power station that obtains its primary energy from the heat generated in nuclear reactions.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nuclear power station, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is nuclear power station, spelled N-U-C-L-E-A-R- -P-O-W-E-R- -S-T-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    A power station that obtains its primary energy from the heat generated in nuclear reactions.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how nuclear power station appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying electricity to the National Grid; reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel; and the processing of lower grades of radioactive waste for off-s…

Synonyms

nuclear power plant

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nuclear power station"?
"nuclear power station" is spelled N-U-C-L-E-A-R- -P-O-W-E-R- -S-T-A-T-I-O-N.
What does "nuclear power station" mean?
As a noun, "nuclear power station" means: A power station that obtains its primary energy from the heat generated in nuclear reactions.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list