Steiner

name

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The verdict

“Steiner” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,193. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#26,193
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-steiner · Steiner · French

Steiner · rank #26,193 · 10 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #26,193
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH stabilisé

Nearest frequency peer: stabilisé (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Steiner »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Steiner » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Steiner vs stoner
57% similar
Steiner vs seine
57% similar
Steiner vs Stein
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Steiner
PropertyValue
HeadwordSteiner
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#26,193
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Steiner »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Steinerse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « stabilisé » (#26,192), « stellaire » (#26,194), « Stephan » (#26,195). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « Steiner » est au #26,193. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around Steiner, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #26,193 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Steiner, with forms such as "setiner", "ssteiner", and "steienr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "stoner", "seine", "Stein", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Steiner, spelled S-T-E-I-N-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Steiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. « Les traitements les plus systématiquement étudiés ont été l’élimination des fluctuations hormonales par des traitements de suppression de l’ovulation ou la correction du dérèglement des neurotransmetteurs par des antidépresseurs ou des anxiolytiques », rapportent Teri Pearlstein et Meir Steiner pour le Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • setiner
  • ssteiner
  • steienr
  • steinerr
  • steinner
  • steinre
  • stenier
  • stiener
  • stteiner
  • tseiner

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Steiner - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

setiner2ssteiner1steienr2steinerr1steinner1steinre2stenier2stiener2
Edit distance from "Steiner"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Steiner"?
"Steiner" is spelled S-T-E-I-N-E-R.
What does "Steiner" mean?
As a proper noun, "Steiner" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Steiner"?
"Steiner" is commonly confused with "stoner", "seine", "Stein". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Steiner" come from?
"Steiner" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Steiner", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Stephan#26,195sunnite#26,198Slovène#26,187situant#26,186

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

sentira10 variantssauvent10 variantsVivendi10 variantswarriors10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list