st
[st]
The verdict
“st” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #5,259 in Spanish word frequency and used as an interjection.
- #5,259
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ¡Silencio!, ¡chito!, ¡callarse!
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | st |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [st] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #5,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “st” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for st is 2 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [st]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,259 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "¡Silencio!, ¡chito!, ¡callarse!".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for st, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "sy", "sus", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is st, spelled S-T.
Definition
- 1¡Silencio!, ¡chito!, ¡callarse!
Synonyms
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “st”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [st] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “su” - see the side-by-side comparison. st vs su
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.