railway station
"railway-station" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“railway 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A place where trains stop for passengers to embark and disembark.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | railway station |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “railway station” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for railway station is 15 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 place where trains stop for passengers to embark and disembark.".
No misspelling variants are generated for railway station in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is railway station, spelled R-A-I-L-W-A-Y- -S-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1A place where trains stop for passengers to embark and disembark.
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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 “railway station”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-A-I-L-W-A-Y- -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.