steiger
\ˈʃtaɪ̯ɡɐ\
The verdict
“steiger” is uncommon French (frequency #96,404 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,404
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de steigern.
Corpus desk
Index FR-steiger · steiger · French
steiger · rank #96,404 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,404
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stance
Nearest frequency peer: stance (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « steiger »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sphynx
sphynx
3,601 corpus weight
- Stace
Stace
3,600 corpus weight
- Stadion
Stadion
3,599 corpus weight
- stance
stance
3,598 corpus weight
- steiger
steiger
3,597 corpus weight
- stras
stras
3,593 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « steiger » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | steiger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈʃtaɪ̯ɡɐ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « steiger » en français
Rare enough to double-check
steiger is uncommon French at frequency #96,404 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈʃtaɪ̯ɡɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for steiger in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is steiger, spelled S-T-E-I-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de steigern.
- 2Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de steigern.
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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