# static

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈstæt.ɪk/ · frequency rank #6,629

## Definitions
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.

## Etymology
Modern Latin staticus, from Ancient Greek στατικός (statikós), from ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to make stand”). By surface analysis, stasis + -tic.

## Easily confused with
- **stats** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/static-vs-stats)
- **stoic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/static-vs-stoic)
- **status** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/static-vs-status)
- **statue** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/static-vs-statue)
- **stator** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/static-vs-stator)
- **station** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/static-vs-station)
- **stating** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/static-vs-stating)
- **statist** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/static-vs-statist)
- **stat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stat-vs-static)
- **state** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/state-vs-static)
- **stain** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stain-vs-static)
- **satin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/satin-vs-static)
- **stair** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stair-vs-static)
- **Stasi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stasi-vs-static)
- **staid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/staid-vs-static)
- **states** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/states-vs-static)
- **stated** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stated-vs-static)
- **Stalin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalin-vs-static)
- **septic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/septic-vs-static)
- **Slavic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slavic-vs-static)

## Common misspellings (9)
`sattic`, `sstatic`, `staitc`, `statci`, `staticc`, `stattic`, `sttaic`, `sttatic`, `tsatic`

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