telestation

noun

"telestation" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“telestation” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A remote facility that sends telemetry or other data to a central facility

Corpus desk

Index EN-telestation · telestation · English

telestation · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "T" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for telestation
PropertyValue
Headwordtelestation
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “telestation” in English

telestationranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

telestation is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A remote facility that sends telemetry or other data to a central facility".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for telestation, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From tele- + station. The correct English form is telestation, spelled T-E-L-E-S-T-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    A remote facility that sends telemetry or other data to a central facility

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how telestation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. With the assistance of the Greenland Technical Organisation's telestations, snow samples were collected from various localities in Greenland […]
  2. From the ward, the nurses communicate with the HIS through a telestation.

Etymology

From tele- + station.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "telestation"?
"telestation" is spelled T-E-L-E-S-T-A-T-I-O-N.
What does "telestation" mean?
As a noun, "telestation" means: A remote facility that sends telemetry or other data to a central facility
What is the origin of the word "telestation"?
From tele- + station. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list