stieg um
[ˌʃtiːk ˈʊm]
The verdict
“stieg um” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in Hauptsätzen: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs umsteigen
Corpus desk
Index DE-stieg-um · stieg um · German
stieg um · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | stieg um |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˌʃtiːk ˈʊm] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “stieg um” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
stieg um is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˌʃtiːk ˈʊm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for stieg um, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 stieg um, spelled S-T-I-E-G- -U-M.
Definition
- 1in Hauptsätzen: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs umsteigen
- 2in Hauptsätzen: 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs umsteigen
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