psst
The verdict
“psst” is uncommon French (frequency #67,030 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,030
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bruit ou sifflement émis pour interpeller quelqu'un ou appeler un animal
Corpus desk
Index FR-psst · psst · French
psst · rank #67,030 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,030
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prétendons
Nearest frequency peer: prétendons (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « psst »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prédisant
prédisant
32,975 corpus weight
- prétendons
prétendons
32,972 corpus weight
- psst
psst
32,971 corpus weight
- psychotrope
psychotrope
32,970 corpus weight
- Puigdemont
Puigdemont
32,968 corpus weight
- pun
pun
32,967 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « psst » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psst |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,030 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « psst » en français
Rare enough to double-check
psst is uncommon French at frequency #67,030 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bruit ou sifflement émis pour interpeller quelqu'un ou appeler un animal".
No generated misspelling entries exist for psst in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is psst, spelled P-S-S-T.
Definition
- 1Bruit ou sifflement émis pour interpeller quelqu'un ou appeler un animal
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how psst appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Psst… Psst'… À quelques mètres de lui, il distingua derrière un massif Mme Sandec qui, du doigt, l’appelait.
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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