Steinway
"steinway" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Steinway” is uncommon English (frequency #55,773 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,773
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A piano made by Steinway & Sons, a German-American piano company founded in 1853 in New York City by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Steinway |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,773 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Steinway” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Steinway is uncommon English at frequency #55,773 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A piano made by Steinway & Sons, a German-American piano company founded in 1853 in New York City by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Steinway in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the surname of the piano maker, a German immigrant to Manhattan whose original surname was Steinweg. The correct English form is Steinway, spelled S-T-E-I-N-W-A-Y.
Definition
- 1A piano made by Steinway & Sons, a German-American piano company founded in 1853 in New York City by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg.
Etymology
From the surname of the piano maker, a German immigrant to Manhattan whose original surname was Steinweg.
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 “Steinway”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-T-E-I-N-W-A-Y - 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.