Steinway
"steinway" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Steinway” is uncommon English (frequency #55,773 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,773
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index EN-steinway · Steinway · English
Steinway · rank #55,773 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,773
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stepbrother
Nearest frequency peer: stepbrother (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Steinway”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- steamboats
steamboats
44,230 corpus weight
- Steinway
Steinway
44,228 corpus weight
- stepbrother
stepbrother
44,227 corpus weight
- stocker
stocker
44,225 corpus weight
- streaky
streaky
44,223 corpus weight
- Sulaiman
Sulaiman
44,221 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Steinway” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Steinway” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Steinway is uncommon English at frequency #55,773 among 6,566 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Steinway appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
After supper — which is a lengthy, spoon-fed, dribblesome business — he likes to play Schubert or Brahms on the Steinway in the conservatory.
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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