stp
\ɛs.te.pe\
The verdict
“stp” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,920) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,920
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’il te plaît.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stp · stp · French
stp · rank #9,920 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,920
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH startup
Nearest frequency peer: startup (-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 « stp »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- speed
speed
90,084 corpus weight
- stagiaire
stagiaire
90,083 corpus weight
- startup
startup
90,082 corpus weight
- stp
stp
90,081 corpus weight
- stricte
stricte
90,080 corpus weight
- suggestions
suggestions
90,079 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « stp » 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 | stp |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ɛs.te.pe\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « stp »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for stp is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "sy", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced \ɛs.te.pe\. Frequency #9,920 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "S’il te plaît.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for stp in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "sy", "SV", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is stp, spelled S-T-P.
Definition
- 1S’il te plaît.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stp appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les abréviations, à la différence des abrègements, sont un phénomène strictement graphique permettant de gagner du temps et de l’espace à l’écrit. Ce sont des groupes de lettres auxquels ne correspond aucune forme oralisée. Ainsi, pr (pour), tt (tout), ds (dans), qd (quand), bcp (beaucoup), stp ou svp (s’il te plaît ou s’il vous plaît), pcq (parce que), s…
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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