station

/\sta.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,975

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

station is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pause, arrêt que l’on fait dans un parcours. Pronounced \sta.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #1,975 in French word frequency. Often confused with stations and stationné.

Key facts for station
PropertyValue
Headwordstation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sta.sjɔ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,975
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of station in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for station is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sta.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,975 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 19 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "stations", "stationné", "satin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French 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

  1. 1
    Pause, arrêt que l’on fait dans un parcours.
  2. 2
    Manière de se tenir.
  3. 3
    État d’une planète lorsqu’elle paraît n’avancer ni ne reculer dans le zodiaque.
  4. 4
    Lieu où l’on s’arrête.
  5. 5
    Lieu fixe pour une activité particulière.
  6. 6
    Station-service
  7. 7
    Lieu où les voitures stationnent.
  8. 8
    Endroit où s’arrête un convoi pour prendre et déposer les voyageurs.
  9. 9
    Lieu où l’on va prendre les eaux, des bains de mer, pratiquer des sports d’hiver etc.
  10. 10
    Chacun des lieux où l’on se place pour faire l’observation convenable.
  11. 11
    Étendue de mer assignée à des vaisseaux pour y établir une croisière pendant un temps fixé.
  12. 12
    Ensemble des installations de télécommunication d’où l’on émet ou d’où l’on relaie des messages, des dépêches, des émissions de radio ou de télévision.
  13. 13
    Chaîne radiophonique.
  14. 14
    Une des quatorze images devant lesquelles les fidèles catholiques s’arrêtent en souvenir de Jésus-Christ montant au calvaire.
  15. 15
    Église, chapelle ou autel désigné par l’autorité ecclésiastique, que l’on va visiter pour y faire certaines prières, afin de gagner des indulgences.
  16. 16
    Ensemble des prédications du carême.
  17. 17
    Étendue de terrain.
  18. 18
    Étendue de terrain dont le climat, la topographie, le sol, la flore et sa structure sont homogènes
  19. 19
    Propriété agricole pratiquant généralement l’élevage extensif.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: sattion,sstation,staiton,statino,stationn,statoin,stattion,sttaion,sttation,tsation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for station

Misspelling Variants of "station"

sattion7sstation8staiton7statino7stationn8statoin7stattion8sttaion7
Misspelling Variants of "station"

Frequency rank: #1,975 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "station"?
"station" is spelled S-T-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \sta.sjɔ̃\.
What does "station" mean?
As a noun, "station" means: Pause, arrêt que l’on fait dans un parcours.
What words are commonly confused with "station"?
"station" is commonly confused with "stations", "stationné", "satin". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "station"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "station" is \sta.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "station" come from?
"station" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.