nuclear power station
"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
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nuclear power station |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “nuclear power station” in English
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
- 1A power station that obtains its primary energy from the heat generated in nuclear reactions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nuclear power station appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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
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.