MST
\ɛm.ɛs.te\
The verdict
“MST” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,137) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,137
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maladie transmissible par les rapports sexuels.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mst · MST · French
MST · rank #27,137 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,137
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moulage
Nearest frequency peer: moulage (-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 « MST »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Montbéliard
Montbéliard
72,867 corpus weight
- Monténégro
Monténégro
72,866 corpus weight
- moulage
moulage
72,865 corpus weight
- MST
MST
72,864 corpus weight
- mundo
mundo
72,863 corpus weight
- mutilation
mutilation
72,862 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « MST » 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 | MST |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛm.ɛs.te\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « MST »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for MST is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "Mt", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛm.ɛs.te\. Frequency #27,137 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Maladie transmissible par les rapports sexuels.".
Zero misspellings are on record for MST in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "Mt", "mu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is MST, spelled M-S-T.
Definition
- 1Maladie transmissible par les rapports sexuels.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how MST appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Pronto devrait être plus efficace que ses prédécesseurs dans la lutte contre les MST.
Nous avons un besoin urgent d'un médicament combiné, spermicide et virucide, qui puisse protéger à la fois contre la grossesse et les MST.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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