steelpan
noun
steelpan is a noun meaning “A percussion instrument consisting of a drum made of steel, originally from Trinidad” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-E-E-L-P-A-N, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of steelpan is steelpans.
What does steelpan mean?
noun
- 1
A percussion instrument consisting of a drum made of steel, originally from Trinidad.
- 2
A style of music incorporating steelpans.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of steelpan
- steelpans plural
- steel pan
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is steelpan?
Steelpan appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does steelpan come from?
From steel + pan.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).