stief-
[ʃtiːf]
The verdict
“stief-” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a prefix. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kennzeichnet im Deutschen eine Verwandtschaftsbeziehung, die durch erneute Heirat eines Elternteiles nach Tod des anderen Elternteils (oder Scheidung von diesem) zwischen den aktuellen Familienmitg...
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Index DE-stief · stief- · German
stief- · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stief- |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Prefix |
| IPA | [ʃtiːf] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “stief-” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
stief- is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aprefix, transcribed [ʃtiːf]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "kennzeichnet im Deutschen eine Verwandtschaftsbeziehung, die durch erneute Heirat eines Elternteiles nach Tod des anderen Elternteils (oder Scheidung von diesem) zwischen den aktuellen Familienmitg...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for stief- in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is stief-, spelled S-T-I-E-F--.
Definition
- 1kennzeichnet im Deutschen eine Verwandtschaftsbeziehung, die durch erneute Heirat eines Elternteiles nach Tod des anderen Elternteils (oder Scheidung von diesem) zwischen den aktuellen Familienmitgliedern entsteht
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stief- appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mein Stiefvater hat mich immer sehr gut behandelt.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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