DST
\de.ɛs.te\
The verdict
“DST” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,896) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,896
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Service de renseignement, organisme d’État fusionné en 2008 avec la Direction centrale des Renseignements généraux (RG) pour donner naissance à la DCRI.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dst · DST · French
DST · rank #43,896 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,896
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Douarnenez
Nearest frequency peer: Douarnenez (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « DST »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- dormirai
dormirai
56,108 corpus weight
- douairière
douairière
56,107 corpus weight
- Douarnenez
Douarnenez
56,106 corpus weight
- DST
DST
56,105 corpus weight
- Ducati
Ducati
56,104 corpus weight
- débarques
débarques
56,103 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « DST » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des 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 | DST |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \de.ɛs.te\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « DST »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for DST is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dt", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \de.ɛs.te\. Frequency #43,896 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Service de renseignement, organisme d’État fusionné en 2008 avec la Direction centrale des Renseignements généraux (RG) pour donner naissance à la DCRI.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for DST in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dt", "DV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is DST, spelled D-S-T.
Definition
- 1Service de renseignement, organisme d’État fusionné en 2008 avec la Direction centrale des Renseignements généraux (RG) pour donner naissance à la DCRI.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how DST appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant la NSA, la DST avait déjà de grandes oreilles. Voilà quarante ans, ses faux plombiers se faisaient surprendre en train de poser des micros au "Canard". — (Le Canard enchaîné du 11/12/13, Un "Canard" très écouté)
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.
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