polling station
"polling-station" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“polling 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - a place where voters go to cast their ballot in an election or referendum; a voting station
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polling station |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “polling station” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
polling station is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "a place where voters go to cast their ballot in an election or referendum; a voting station".
No misspelling variants are generated for polling station in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 polling station, spelled P-O-L-L-I-N-G- -S-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1a place where voters go to cast their ballot in an election or referendum; a voting station
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 “polling station”
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- The one correct English spelling is P-O-L-L-I-N-G- -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.