station-service
\sta.sjɔ̃.sɛʁ.vis\
The verdict
“station-service” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lieu destiné principalement à la distribution de carburant, avec une éventuelle activité de libre-service et d’entretien des véhicules.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | station-service |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sta.sjɔ̃.sɛʁ.vis\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “station-service” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for station-service is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sta.sjɔ̃.sɛʁ.vis\. 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: "Lieu destiné principalement à la distribution de carburant, avec une éventuelle activité de libre-service et d’entretien des véhicules.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for station-service, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is station-service, spelled S-T-A-T-I-O-N---S-E-R-V-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Lieu destiné principalement à la distribution de carburant, avec une éventuelle activité de libre-service et d’entretien des véhicules.
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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.
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Using “station-service”
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---S-E-R-V-I-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sta.sjɔ̃.sɛʁ.vis\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.