Steiger
"steiger" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Steiger” is uncommon English (frequency #67,072 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,072
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname from German.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Steiger |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Steiger” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Steiger is uncommon English at frequency #67,072 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from German.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Steiger in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: * As a German surname, variant of Steger. * Also as a German occupational surname for a foreman or mine inspector, and for someone who lived near a steep road, from Steiger (“foreman”, literally “one who ascends”) (see below). * Also as a German surname, fr… The correct English form is Steiger, spelled S-T-E-I-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1A surname from German.
Etymology
* As a German surname, variant of Steger. * Also as a German occupational surname for a foreman or mine inspector, and for someone who lived near a steep road, from Steiger (“foreman”, literally “one who ascends”) (see below). * Also as a German surname, from the placename Steige in Alsace or Steige in Baden-Württemberg, these names themselves related to the word meaning to climb or ascend.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Steiger”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-T-E-I-G-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.