sto
\sɛ\
The verdict
“sto” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,269) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,269
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contraction de la préposition et de l'article défini, « dans le ».
Corpus desk
Index FR-sto · sto · French
sto · rank #31,269 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,269
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stigmates
Nearest frequency peer: stigmates (-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 « sto »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Stalingrad
Stalingrad
68,735 corpus weight
- stigmates
stigmates
68,733 corpus weight
- sto
sto
68,732 corpus weight
- Strasbourge…
Strasbourgeois
68,731 corpus weight
- subira
subira
68,730 corpus weight
- subventionn…
subventionnés
68,729 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « sto » 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 | sto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \sɛ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « sto »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sto is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "sy", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced \sɛ\. Frequency #31,269 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Contraction de la préposition et de l'article défini, « dans le ».".
Zero misspellings are on record for sto in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "sy", "SV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sto, spelled S-T-O.
Definition
- 1Contraction de la préposition et de l'article défini, « dans le ».
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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