station
\sta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“station” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,975 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,975
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pause, arrêt que l’on fait dans un parcours.
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 | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “station” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for station is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for station, with forms such as "sattion", "sstation", and "staiton". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "stations", "stationné", "satin", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is station, spelled S-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Pause, arrêt que l’on fait dans un parcours.
- 2Manière de se tenir.
- 3État d’une planète lorsqu’elle paraît n’avancer ni ne reculer dans le zodiaque.
- 4Lieu où l’on s’arrête.
- 5Lieu fixe pour une activité particulière.
- 6Station-service
- 7Lieu où les voitures stationnent.
- 8Endroit où s’arrête un convoi pour prendre et déposer les voyageurs.
- 9Lieu où l’on va prendre les eaux, des bains de mer, pratiquer des sports d’hiver etc.
- 10Chacun des lieux où l’on se place pour faire l’observation convenable.
- 11Étendue de mer assignée à des vaisseaux pour y établir une croisière pendant un temps fixé.
- 12Ensemble 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.
- 13Chaîne radiophonique.
- 14Une des quatorze images devant lesquelles les fidèles catholiques s’arrêtent en souvenir de Jésus-Christ montant au calvaire.
- 15Église, chapelle ou autel désigné par l’autorité ecclésiastique, que l’on va visiter pour y faire certaines prières, afin de gagner des indulgences.
- 16Ensemble des prédications du carême.
- 17Étendue de terrain.
- 18Étendue de terrain dont le climat, la topographie, le sol, la flore et sa structure sont homogènes
- 19Propriété 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
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 French 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 French spelling is S-T-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sta.sjɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “stations” - see the side-by-side comparison. station vs stations
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French 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.