station
/ˈsteɪʃən/
"station" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“station” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #1,061 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,061
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A stopping place.
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 | station |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsteɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “station” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for station is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsteɪʃən/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,061 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 24 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for station, with forms such as "sattion", "sstation", and "staiton". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "stator", "suction", "Stetson", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English stacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin statiōnem, accusative of statiō (“standing, post, job, position”), whence also Italian stazione. Doublet of stagione. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi), στάσις (stásis),… The correct English form is station, spelled S-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1A stopping place.
- 2A stopping place.
- 3A stopping place.
- 4A stopping place.
- 5A stopping place.
- 6A place where workers are stationed.
- 7A place where workers are stationed.
- 8A place where workers are stationed.
- 9A place where workers are stationed.
- 10A place where workers are stationed.
- 11A place where workers are stationed.
- 12A place where workers are stationed.
- 13Any of the Stations of the Cross.
- 14The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
- 15A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
- 16Standing; rank; position.
- 17A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
- 18Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
- 19The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
- 20An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
- 21Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
- 22The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
- 23The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
- 24The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
Etymology
From Middle English stacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin statiōnem, accusative of statiō (“standing, post, job, position”), whence also Italian stazione. Doublet of stagione. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi), στάσις (stásis), Old English standan (whence English stand).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sattion,sstation,staiton,stasion,statino,stationn,statoin,stattion,sttaion,sttation,tsation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of station - 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 “station”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-T-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈsteɪʃən/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “stator” - see the side-by-side comparison. station vs stator
- 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.