Steppe
German, noun
Steppe is spelled S-T-E-P-P-E (6 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written German, the 32,479th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Steppe is a German feminine noun meaning “steppe (grassland)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, steppe is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ausgedehntes, dürres, unbebautes Flachland mit spärlichem Gebüsch- und Graswuchs”.
What does Steppe mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesteppe (grassland)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ausgedehntes, dürres, unbebautes Flachland mit spärlichem Gebüsch- und Graswuchs
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Steppe
- Steppen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Steppe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Steppe in German?
Steppe appears 1.3 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).