Stahlbau
[ˈʃtaːlˌbaʊ̯]
The verdict
“Stahlbau” is uncommon German (frequency #54,909 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,909
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Teil des Ingenieurbaus, bei dem Tragwerke vorwiegend aus Stahl gefertigt sind oder gefertigt werden
Corpus desk
Index DE-stahlbau · Stahlbau · German
Stahlbau · rank #54,909 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,909
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Staatspolizei
Nearest frequency peer: Staatspolizei (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Stahlbau“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- sprüht
sprüht
45,096 corpus weight
- Staatspoliz…
Staatspolizei
45,093 corpus weight
- Stahlbau
Stahlbau
45,092 corpus weight
- Stahlbeton
Stahlbeton
45,091 corpus weight
- Stammgäste
Stammgäste
45,090 corpus weight
- startest
startest
45,088 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Stahlbau“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Stahlbau“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Stahlbau is uncommon German at frequency #54,909 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃtaːlˌbaʊ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Stahlbau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Von der deutschen Einheit künden die neuen Stahlbauten einer Kartonagenfabrik.“
„Es hänge vielmehr von der gewünschten Architektur ab, ob Holz- oder Stahlbau besser geeignet sei.“
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).