statistics
/stəˈtɪs.tɪks/noun, verb
statistics is spelled S-T-A-T-I-S-T-I-C-S: 10 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 40 times per million words in written English, the 2,487th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, statistics means “A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in statistics?
| Letters | 10: S-T-A-T-I-S-T-I-C-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 40 times per million words; the 2,487th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is statistics?
Statistics appears 40 times per million words in written English, the 2,487th 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 statistics?
- /stəˈtɪs.tɪks/
Statistics has 3 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-statistics.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does statistics mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data.
Statistics is the only mathematical field required for many social sciences.
- 2
A systematic collection of data on measurements or observations, often related to demographic information such as population counts, incomes, population counts at different ages, etc.
The statistics from the Census for apportionment are available.
- 3
plural of statistic
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of statistic
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate statistics?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of statistics: stats.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Statistics in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | statistique , statistiques |
| German | Statistik |
| Portuguese | estatística , estatísticas |
| Spanish | estadística |
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 statistics come from?
From German Statistik, from New Latin statisticum (“of the state”) and Italian statista (“statesman, politician”), compare English statist. Statistik introduced by Gottfried Achenwall (1749), originally designated the analysis of data about the state.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).