Steampunk
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The verdict
“Steampunk” is uncommon German (frequency #70,834 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,834
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Subgenre der Science-Fiction, für das retrofuturistische, mit Dampf betriebene Apparate und Maschinen, sowie Elemente der viktorianischen Ära charakteristisch sind
Corpus desk
Index DE-steampunk · Steampunk · German
Steampunk · rank #70,834 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,834
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Steinbrüchen
Nearest frequency peer: Steinbrüchen (+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 „Steampunk“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Stadtstaat
Stadtstaat
29,170 corpus weight
- Staffelei
Staffelei
29,169 corpus weight
- Steampunk
Steampunk
29,167 corpus weight
- Steinbrüchen
Steinbrüchen
29,166 corpus weight
- steirischer
steirischer
29,164 corpus weight
- Sterbender
Sterbender
29,163 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Steampunk“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Steampunk |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Steampunk“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Steampunk is uncommon German at frequency #70,834 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Subgenre der Science-Fiction, für das retrofuturistische, mit Dampf betriebene Apparate und Maschinen, sowie Elemente der viktorianischen Ära charakteristisch sind".
Steampunk has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Steampunk, spelled S-T-E-A-M-P-U-N-K.
Definition
- 1Subgenre der Science-Fiction, für das retrofuturistische, mit Dampf betriebene Apparate und Maschinen, sowie Elemente der viktorianischen Ära charakteristisch sind
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Steampunk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jules Verne und der Wilde Westen sind wichtige Inspirationsquellen für Steampunk.
This word in other languages
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).