Stiefschwester
[ˈʃtiːfˌʃvɛstɐ]
The verdict
“Stiefschwester” is uncommon German (frequency #54,920 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,920
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - halbbürtige Schwester
Corpus desk
Index DE-stiefschwester · Stiefschwester · German
Stiefschwester · rank #54,920 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,920
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Stickereien
Nearest frequency peer: Stickereien (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Stiefschwester“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sternschnup…
Sternschnuppe
45,084 corpus weight
- Sternstunde
Sternstunde
45,083 corpus weight
- Stickereien
Stickereien
45,082 corpus weight
- Stiefschwes…
Stiefschwester
45,081 corpus weight
- strahlendes
strahlendes
45,079 corpus weight
- Streitpunkt
Streitpunkt
45,078 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Stiefschwester“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stiefschwester |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtiːfˌʃvɛstɐ] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #54,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Stiefschwester“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Stiefschwester is uncommon German at frequency #54,920 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃtiːfˌʃvɛstɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Stiefschwester doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Stiefschwester, spelled S-T-I-E-F-S-C-H-W-E-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1halbbürtige Schwester
- 2weibliches Kind in einer Stieffamilie aus der Sicht eines anderen Kindes derselben Familie, mit dem es keinen gemeinsamen Elternteil hat (Kind nur des eigenen Stiefvaters oder nur der eigenen Stiefmutter)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Stiefschwester appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ihr Verhältnis zu ihrer Stiefschwester wurde mit der Zeit immer besser.
„Recha hob die Hand, schlug nach Leas Stiefschwester und machte Anstalten, sie wieder hinauszuwerfen, was die Schwangere, außer sich vor Lachen, mit schwerfälligen Bewegungen vereitelte.“
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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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