Stahlbau
[ˈʃtaːlˌbaʊ̯]
The verdict
“Stahlbau” is an uncommon German word, ranked #54,909 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #54,909
- frequency rank, German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Teil des Ingenieurbaus, bei dem Tragwerke vorwiegend aus Stahl gefertigt sind oder gefertigt werden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stahlbau |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtaːlˌbaʊ̯] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Stahlbau” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Stahlbau is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃtaːlˌbaʊ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #54,909 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Stahlbau in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Stahlbau, spelled S-T-A-H-L-B-A-U.
Definition
- 1Teil des Ingenieurbaus, bei dem Tragwerke vorwiegend aus Stahl gefertigt sind oder gefertigt werden
- 2Bauwerk, das vorwiegend aus Stahl gefertigt ist
- 3Bereich der Bauindustrie, der sich mit der Erstellung von Stahlbauten beschäftigt
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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 “Stahlbau”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-T-A-H-L-B-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʃtaːlˌbaʊ̯] (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.