Steilküste
[ˈʃtaɪ̯lˌkʏstə]
The verdict
“Steilküste” is an uncommon German word, ranked #77,369 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #77,369
- frequency rank, German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Küstenabschnitt, bei dem das Meer unvermittelt auf das steil in die Höhe ragende Festland trifft
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Steilküste |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtaɪ̯lˌkʏstə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Steilküste” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Steilküste is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃtaɪ̯lˌkʏstə]. Corpus data places it at rank #77,369 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Küstenabschnitt, bei dem das Meer unvermittelt auf das steil in die Höhe ragende Festland trifft".
Steilküste doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Steilküste, spelled S-T-E-I-L-K-Ü-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Küstenabschnitt, bei dem das Meer unvermittelt auf das steil in die Höhe ragende Festland trifft
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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 “Steilküste”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-T-E-I-L-K-Ü-S-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʃtaɪ̯lˌkʏstə] (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.