stephane
"stephane" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stephane” is uncommon English (frequency #52,648 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,648
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An Ancient Greek headdress like a coronet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stephane |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “stephane” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
stephane is uncommon English at frequency #52,648 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An Ancient Greek headdress like a coronet.".
Zero misspellings are on record for stephane in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek στέφανος (stéphanos, “crown”). The correct English form is stephane, spelled S-T-E-P-H-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1An Ancient Greek headdress like a coronet.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek στέφανος (stéphanos, “crown”).
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 “stephane”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-T-E-P-H-A-N-E - 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.