stative
/ˈsteɪtɪv/adjective, noun
stative is spelled S-T-A-T-I-V-E: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, stative means “Of a verb: asserting, generally intransitively, that a subject has a particular property, quality or status” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in stative?
| Letters | 7: S-T-A-T-I-V-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 17 million words; the 122,704th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is stative?
Stative appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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 stative?
- /ˈsteɪtɪv/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-stative.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of stative
- statives plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stative mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of a verb: asserting, generally intransitively, that a subject has a particular property, quality or status.
Granted, then, that the original meaning of these verbs was stative, the fact that a number of them have more or less involuntary meaning admits of a ready explanation. From the idea of becoming, in which originally there was in all probabi
- 2
obsoleterareOf or relating to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.
noun
- 1
A construct asserting that a subject has a particular property.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Stative in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | estativo, de estado |
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 stative come from?
From Latin stativus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).