Segway
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The verdict
“Segway” is uncommon German (frequency #65,678 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,678
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - mit einem selbstbalancierenden elektronischen Antrieb ausgestatteter Elektroroller für eine Person, bei dem diese aufrecht auf einer Plattform über zwei auf einer Achse angeordneten Rädern steht un...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Segway |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Segway” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Segway is uncommon German at frequency #65,678 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mit einem selbstbalancierenden elektronischen Antrieb ausgestatteter Elektroroller für eine Person, bei dem diese aufrecht auf einer Plattform über zwei auf einer Achse angeordneten Rädern steht un...".
Segway doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Segway, spelled S-E-G-W-A-Y.
Definition
- 1mit einem selbstbalancierenden elektronischen Antrieb ausgestatteter Elektroroller für eine Person, bei dem diese aufrecht auf einer Plattform über zwei auf einer Achse angeordneten Rädern steht und sich an einer Lenkstange festhält
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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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Segway”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-E-G-W-A-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.