Steingut
[ˈʃtaɪ̯nˌɡuːt]
The verdict
“Steingut” is uncommon German (frequency #99,131 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,131
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - aus Quarz, Ton und Feldspat bestehende, bei niedriger Hitze gebrannte, durchsichtig glasierte Tonwaren mit weißem, porösem Scherben für Geschirr, Fliesen, Waschtische, Badewannen und andere sanitär...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Steingut |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtaɪ̯nˌɡuːt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Steingut” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Steingut is uncommon German at frequency #99,131 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃtaɪ̯nˌɡuːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "aus Quarz, Ton und Feldspat bestehende, bei niedriger Hitze gebrannte, durchsichtig glasierte Tonwaren mit weißem, porösem Scherben für Geschirr, Fliesen, Waschtische, Badewannen und andere sanitär...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Steingut, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Steingut, spelled S-T-E-I-N-G-U-T.
Definition
- 1aus Quarz, Ton und Feldspat bestehende, bei niedriger Hitze gebrannte, durchsichtig glasierte Tonwaren mit weißem, porösem Scherben für Geschirr, Fliesen, Waschtische, Badewannen und andere sanitäre Artikel
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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 “Steingut”
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- The one correct German spelling is S-T-E-I-N-G-U-T - 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.