stepsister
"stepsister" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stepsister” is uncommon English (frequency #56,465 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,465
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The daughter of one's stepparent by a previous relationship.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stepsister · stepsister · English
stepsister · rank #56,465 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,465
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Staggers
Nearest frequency peer: Staggers (-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 “stepsister”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- speight
speight
43,540 corpus weight
- Staggers
Staggers
43,537 corpus weight
- stepsister
stepsister
43,536 corpus weight
- Steubenville
Steubenville
43,535 corpus weight
- Stradivarius
Stradivarius
43,534 corpus weight
- strategize
strategize
43,533 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stepsister” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stepsister |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stepsister” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stepsister is uncommon English at frequency #56,465 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for stepsister, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From step- + sister. The correct English form is stepsister, spelled S-T-E-P-S-I-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1The daughter of one's stepparent by a previous relationship.
- 2The stepdaughter of one's parent which is not one's half-sister.
Etymology
From step- + sister.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).