How to spell station

hear itsta·tion/'steɪʃən/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: A place where trains stop for passengers to board.

In a sentence: Let's meet at the train station.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as stasion or staiton.

Same family: stationed, stationing, stationary, stationery, substation. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Station” comes from Latin *statio*, meaning “a standing place” or “outpost.” Over time, English speakers began using it as a verb, meaning to place or assign a person to a particular post or position.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · -tion, -sion or -cian?

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