steampunk
\stim.pœŋk\
The verdict
“steampunk” is uncommon French (frequency #58,954 among 394,209 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,954
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sous-genre de la science-fiction se déroulant généralement au XIXᵉ ou au début du XXᵉ siècle, et devant son nom à l’utilisation massive de technologies en avance sur leur temps, mais à base de mach...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | steampunk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stim.pœŋk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “steampunk” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
steampunk is uncommon French at frequency #58,954 among 394,209 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stim.pœŋk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sous-genre de la science-fiction se déroulant généralement au XIXᵉ ou au début du XXᵉ siècle, et devant son nom à l’utilisation massive de technologies en avance sur leur temps, mais à base de mach...".
No misspelling variants are generated for steampunk in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is steampunk, spelled S-T-E-A-M-P-U-N-K.
Definition
- 1Sous-genre de la science-fiction se déroulant généralement au XIXᵉ ou au début du XXᵉ siècle, et devant son nom à l’utilisation massive de technologies en avance sur leur temps, mais à base de machines à vapeur ou, plus généralement, mouvement artistique fondé sur cette esthétique.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “steampunk”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-T-E-A-M-P-U-N-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \stim.pœŋk\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.