st
[st]
The verdict
“st” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,259) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,259
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ¡Silencio!, ¡chito!, ¡callarse!
Corpus desk
Index ES-st · st · Spanish
st · rank #5,259 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,259
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH servidores
Nearest frequency peer: servidores (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “st”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Scott
Scott
94,745 corpus weight
- sepas
sepas
94,744 corpus weight
- servidores
servidores
94,743 corpus weight
- st
st
94,742 corpus weight
- star
star
94,741 corpus weight
- suceder
suceder
94,740 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “st” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “st”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for st is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "sy", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [st]. Frequency #5,259 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "¡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.