police station
"police-station" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“police 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A building serving as the headquarters of a branch of the police force, and sometimes as a temporary place of confinement for offenders.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | police station |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “police station” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for police station is 14 letters long, classified as a noun. 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: "A building serving as the headquarters of a branch of the police force, and sometimes as a temporary place of confinement for offenders.".
Zero misspellings are on record for police station in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is police station, spelled P-O-L-I-C-E- -S-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1A building serving as the headquarters of a branch of the police force, and sometimes as a temporary place of confinement for offenders.
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 “police station”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-O-L-I-C-E- -S-T-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.