stufenlos
[ˈʃtuːfn̩loːs]
The verdict
“stufenlos” is uncommon German (frequency #79,790 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,790
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ohne Stufen, keine Stufen aufweisend
Corpus desk
Index DE-stufenlos · stufenlos · German
stufenlos · rank #79,790 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,790
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Strohfeuer
Nearest frequency peer: Strohfeuer (-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 „stufenlos“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Stripperinn…
Stripperinnen
20,213 corpus weight
- Strohfeuer
Strohfeuer
20,212 corpus weight
- stufenlos
stufenlos
20,211 corpus weight
- Stundenzahl
Stundenzahl
20,210 corpus weight
- Sturmhaube
Sturmhaube
20,209 corpus weight
- städtebauli…
städtebaulicher
20,208 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „stufenlos“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stufenlos |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʃtuːfn̩loːs] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „stufenlos“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
stufenlos is uncommon German at frequency #79,790 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʃtuːfn̩loːs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ohne Stufen, keine Stufen aufweisend".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for stufenlos, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is stufenlos, spelled S-T-U-F-E-N-L-O-S.
Definition
- 1ohne Stufen, keine Stufen aufweisend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stufenlos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ein Rheostat ist ein stufenlos einstellbarer elektrischer Widerstand für hohe Lasten.“
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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