# stasis

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈsteɪsɪs/ · frequency rank #29,480

## Definitions
1. A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
2. Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
3. A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
4. One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.

## Etymology
From New Latin stasis, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). See the doublet stead.

## Easily confused with
- **stats** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stasis-vs-stats)
- **stays** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stasis-vs-stays)
- **states** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stasis-vs-states)
- **status** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stasis-vs-status)
- **static** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stasis-vs-static)
- **staves** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stasis-vs-staves)
- **statist** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stasis-vs-statist)
- **sass** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sass-vs-stasis)
- **sais** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sais-vs-stasis)
- **stars** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stars-vs-stasis)
- **stain** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stain-vs-stasis)
- **stash** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stash-vs-stasis)
- **stair** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stair-vs-stasis)
- **Stasi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stasi-vs-stasis)
- **staid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/staid-vs-stasis)
- **stands** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stands-vs-stasis)
- **stages** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stages-vs-stasis)
- **stairs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stairs-vs-stasis)
- **stakes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stakes-vs-stasis)
- **stamps** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stamps-vs-stasis)

## Common misspellings (9)
`satsis`, `sstasis`, `staiss`, `stasiss`, `stassi`, `stassis`, `stsais`, `sttasis`, `tsasis`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/stasis