STS
\ɛs te ɛs\
The verdict
“STS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,514) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,514
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Navette spatiale américaine ayant effectué 135 vols pour l'agence spatiale américaine (NASA) entre le 12 avril 1981 et juillet 2011.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sts · STS · French
STS · rank #40,514 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,514
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH storytelling
Nearest frequency peer: storytelling (-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 « STS »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- steppe
steppe
59,489 corpus weight
- storytelling
storytelling
59,488 corpus weight
- STS
STS
59,487 corpus weight
- stèles
stèles
59,486 corpus weight
- submergés
submergés
59,485 corpus weight
- suiveurs
suiveurs
59,484 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « STS » 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 | STS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs te ɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « STS »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for STS is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "sy", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛs te ɛs\. Frequency #40,514 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Navette spatiale américaine ayant effectué 135 vols pour l'agence spatiale américaine (NASA) entre le 12 avril 1981 et juillet 2011.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for STS, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is STS, spelled S-T-S.
Definition
- 1Navette spatiale américaine ayant effectué 135 vols pour l'agence spatiale américaine (NASA) entre le 12 avril 1981 et juillet 2011.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how STS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le STS, système de transport spatial est développé par la NASA, l’agence civile de l' espace.
IDEM dans Space Station 3D ou on voit une séparation d'un STS et de l'ISS: la soute est éclairée...
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).