Steinhaus
[ˈʃtaɪ̯nˌhaʊ̯s]
The verdict
“Steinhaus” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #40,225 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #40,225
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Haus, das vollständig aus Stein gebaut ist
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Steinhaus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtaɪ̯nˌhaʊ̯s] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Steinhaus” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Steinhaus is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃtaɪ̯nˌhaʊ̯s]. Corpus data places it at rank #40,225 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Haus, das vollständig aus Stein gebaut ist".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Steinhaus, with forms such as "setinhaus", "ssteinhaus", and "steihnaus". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Steinhaus, spelled S-T-E-I-N-H-A-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Haus, das vollständig aus Stein gebaut ist
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: setinhaus,ssteinhaus,steihnaus,steinahus,steinhasu,steinhauss,steinhhaus,steinhuas,steinnhaus,stenihaus,stienhaus,stteinhaus,tseinhaus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Steinhaus - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "Steinhaus"
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 “Steinhaus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-T-E-I-N-H-A-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʃtaɪ̯nˌhaʊ̯s] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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