station de ski

\sta.sjɔ̃ də ski\

/\sta.sjɔ̃ də ski\/ noun

The verdict

“station de ski” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Station touristique aménagée pour la pratique du ski et des autres activités sportives et ludiques liées à la neige.

Key facts for station de ski
PropertyValue
Headwordstation de ski
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sta.sjɔ̃ də ski\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “station de ski” sits in French frequency

station de ski falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

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

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for station de ski is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sta.sjɔ̃ də ski\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Station touristique aménagée pour la pratique du ski et des autres activités sportives et ludiques liées à la neige.".

No misspelling variants are generated for station de ski in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 de ski, spelled S-T-A-T-I-O-N- -D-E- -S-K-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Station touristique aménagée pour la pratique du ski et des autres activités sportives et ludiques liées à la neige.

This word in other languages

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "station de ski"?
"station de ski" is spelled S-T-A-T-I-O-N- -D-E- -S-K-I. The IPA pronunciation is \sta.sjɔ̃ də ski\.
What does "station de ski" mean?
As a noun, "station de ski" means: Station touristique aménagée pour la pratique du ski et des autres activités sportives et ludiques liées à la neige.
How do you pronounce "station de ski"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "station de ski" is \sta.sjɔ̃ də ski\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "station de ski" come from?
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Using “station de ski”

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- -D-E- -S-K-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \sta.sjɔ̃ də ski\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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