tst
\t͡s\
The verdict
“tst” is uncommon French (frequency #99,722 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,722
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bruit d’agacement ou de désapprobation produit à l’aide d’un clic dental, transcrite /ǀ/ en API, aussi écrit tsk.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tst · tst · French
tst · rank #99,722 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,722
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trotskisme
Nearest frequency peer: trotskisme (-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 « tst »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tricorne
tricorne
282 corpus weight
- Trojans
Trojans
281 corpus weight
- trotskisme
trotskisme
280 corpus weight
- tst
tst
279 corpus weight
- turbidité
turbidité
278 corpus weight
- téléphériqu…
téléphériques
276 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tst » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tst |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \t͡s\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #99,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tst » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tst is uncommon French at frequency #99,722 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \t͡s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
tst has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 tst, spelled T-S-T.
Definition
- 1Bruit d’agacement ou de désapprobation produit à l’aide d’un clic dental, transcrite /ǀ/ en API, aussi écrit tsk.
- 2Bruit d’interpellation produit à l’aide d’une consonne affriquée alvéolaire sourde, transcrite /t͡s/ en API, aussi écrit tss.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tst appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Bien entendu, cher maître, vos conditions sont les miennes et la société et moi-même sommes prêts à faire… — Tst, tst, tst, allons, allons, pas de précipitations monsieur le Maire, nous n’en sommes pas encore là.
Clarice Starling : Eh bien, peut-être aimeriez-vous… nous confier vos vues sur ce questionnaire, monsieur. Hannibal Lecter : Oh non, non, non, non ! Tout se passait si bien : je vous trouvais courtoise, et réceptive à la courtoisie. Vous aviez gagné ma confiance avec cette… troublante vérité sur M. Miggs. Tout ça pour en arriver à cette pesante transition…
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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