stadium
/ˈsteɪ.di.əm/
"stadium" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stadium” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #2,369 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,369
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A venue where sporting events are held.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stadium |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsteɪ.di.əm/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “stadium” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for stadium is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsteɪ.di.əm/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,369 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for stadium, with forms such as "satdium", "sstadium", and "staddium". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "sodium", "stadia", "sadism", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin stadium (“a measure of length, a race course”) (commonly one-eighth of a Roman mile; translated in early English Bibles by furlong), from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion, “a measure of length, a running track”), especially the track at Olympia, wh… The correct English form is stadium, spelled S-T-A-D-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1A venue where sporting events are held.
- 2An Ancient Greek racecourse, especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
- 3Synonym of stadion, a Greek unit of length equivalent to about 185 m.
- 4A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends.
- 5A graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope.
- 6A life stage of an organism.
Etymology
From Latin stadium (“a measure of length, a race course”) (commonly one-eighth of a Roman mile; translated in early English Bibles by furlong), from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion, “a measure of length, a running track”), especially the track at Olympia, which was one stadium in length. The Greek word may literally mean "fixed standard of length" (from στάδιος (stádios, “firm, fixed”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-, whence also stand and Latin stare). Doublet of stade, stadion, and estadio.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: satdium,sstadium,staddium,stadimu,stadiumm,staduim,staidum,stdaium,sttadium,tsadium
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stadium - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “stadium”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-T-A-D-I-U-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈsteɪ.di.əm/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “sodium” - see the side-by-side comparison. stadium vs sodium
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.