station
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "station", 7-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "station" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "station" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
station is aEnglishnoun. It means: A stopping place. Pronounced /ˈsteɪʃən/. It ranks #1,061 in English word frequency. Often confused with stator and suction.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for station is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for station, with forms such as "sattion", "sstation", and "staiton". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "stator", "suction", "Stetson", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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),… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is station, spelled S-T-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sattion,sstation,staiton,stasion,statino,stationn,statoin,stattion,sttaion,sttation,tsation
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for station
Misspelling Variants of "station"
Frequency rank: #1,061 in English
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