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st

interjection, noun

st is an interjection meaning “Expressing a sudden desire for silence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T and has one syllable, and it appears 158 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does st mean?

interjection

  1. 1

    Expressing a sudden desire for silence.

noun

as ST
  1. 1

    Initialism of short ton(s).

  2. 2

    Initialism of storyteller, especially in the context of running certain tabletop role-playing games.

  3. 3

    Abbreviation of steam.

  4. 4

    Initialism of sanitary towel.

  5. 5

    An ST segment.

  6. 6

    Initialism of short time.

  7. 7

    Initialism of source text.

  8. 8

    Initialism of specialty training

verb

as ST
  1. 1

    To act as a game master (GM) in a tabletop role-playing game, especially any of the games produced by White Wolf.

noun

as St
  1. 1

    Abbreviation of Saint.

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of st. and St.; abbreviation of street.

  2. 2

    Abbreviation of state.

  3. 3

    Abbreviation of stone; not capitalized or usually spaced.

  4. 4

    Abbreviation of store.

  5. 5

    Abbreviation of stitch.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce st?

    St has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of st

    • sts. plural
    • sst
    • sts plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is st?

    St appears 158 times per million words in written English, the 638th most frequent word form in the list.

    Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

    Words people confuse with st

    Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

    s--t vs st0 B

    Also written: s--t (one word or two), sst.

    Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

    St in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    LanguageWords
    GermanStr. (street), St. (saint), -st- (first), Sct. (abbreviation of Saint)
    Spanishc (street), S., Sta. (abbreviation of Saint)
    PortugueseSt. (saint), S., Sto., Sta. (abbreviation of Saint)
    Frenchʳᵉ, (ère) f, ᵉʳˢ, (ères) f (first), St. (abbreviation of Saint), ST (steam)

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

    Where does st come from?

    Imitative. Compare hist.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).