S**t or st?
s**t is a noun meaning “Initialism of science and technology”; st is a noun meaning “Alternative letter-case form of St., abbreviation of street”.
What is the difference between s**t and st?
| s**t | st | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun, preposition, adverb, conjunction, pronoun, interjection, verb | noun, interjection, suffix, verb |
| Meaning | Censored spelling of shit Censored spelling of slut | Expressing a sudden desire for silence Marks ordinals written in digits when the final term of the spelled number is "first" Excrescent suffix (adding sound but largely not changing the meaning) |
| Example | Given r s.t. rlt;n.. | St. Vincent and the Grenadines |
| Forms | s**ts s--ts s–ts | sts. sts |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | too rare to measure | 158 times per million words |
Sources: s**t and st in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of s**t and st
s**t
- 1
Initialism of science and technology
- 2
Abbreviation of subject to, used in optimisation problems
- 3
Abbreviation of sometimes
- 4
Abbreviation of subject to
- 5
Abbreviation of such that
Given r s.t. rlt;n..
- 6
Abbreviation of something
- 7
Censored spelling of shit
- 8
Censored spelling of shit
st
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of St., abbreviation of street
- 2
Expressing a sudden desire for silence
- 3
Alternative form of st. and St.; abbreviation of street
- 4
Abbreviation of street (in names of specific streets, not as a common noun)
- 5
Marks ordinals written in digits when the final term of the spelled number is "first"
the 21st century
- 6
Excrescent suffix (adding sound but largely not changing the meaning)
among + -st → amongst
- 7
Initialism of short ton(s)
- 8
To act as a game master (GM) in a tabletop role-playing game, especially any of the games produced by White Wolf
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, s**t or st?
s**t appears too rarely to measure; st 158 times per million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).