static
/ˈstæt.ɪk/adjective, noun
static is spelled S-T-A-T-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is statick: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 270 of all searches for the word. Static is an adjective meaning “Unchanging; that cannot or does not change”.
How many letters and syllables are in static?
| Letters | 6: S-T-A-T-I-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,565th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, statick, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell static?
Static is spelled S-T-A-T-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 269 of the searches for static in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is static?
Static appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,565th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce static?
- UK /ˈstæt.ɪk/
- US /ˈstæt.ɪk/
- US [ˈstæɾ.ɪk]
Static has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-static.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Simplificationalizer-static.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with static?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as static from its last stressed vowel (/ætɪk/):
- democratic
- automatic
- diplomatic
- problematic
- systematic
- traumatic
- bureaucratic
- erratic
- pancreatic
- aromatic
- enigmatic
- hepatic
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of static
- statics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does static mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.
- 2
Making no progress; stalled, without movement or advancement.
- 3
Immobile; fixed in place; having no motion.
- 4
Computed, created, or allocated before the program starts running, as opposed to at runtime.
- 5
Defined for the class itself, as opposed to instances of it; thus shared between all instances and accessible even without an instance.
noun
- 1
Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television.
Near-synonyms: shash, snow
- 2
Interference or obstruction from people.
I was getting a lot of static from the bean counters whenever I tried to proceed.
- 3
USslangVerbal abuse.
Near-synonym: flak
- 4
Static electricity.
This stupid carpet is always giving me a shock from the static.
- 5
A static caravan.
- 6
A static variable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Static in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | statique , parasites, friture , -statique |
| Portuguese | estático , estática, chiado , -stático |
| Spanish | estático , nieve , -stático , estática |
| German | Schnee |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does static come from?
Modern Latin staticus, from Ancient Greek στατικός (statikós), from ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to make stand”). By surface analysis, stasis + -tic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).