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stator

noun

stator is spelled S-T-A-T-O-R: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,209th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stator means “The stationary part of a motor or other machine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stator is stators.

How many letters and syllables are in stator?

Letters6: S-T-A-T-O-R
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 44,209th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 stator?

Stator appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,209th 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 stator?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sapaa-stator.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of stator

  • stators plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does stator mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The stationary part of a motor or other machine.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Stator in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense stationary part of a motor:

LanguageWords
Portugueseestator
Spanishestátor, estator

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 stator come from?

From stationary or static by analogy with rotor; alternatively from a hypothetical Latin stātor (literally “stander”); all ultimately from stāre (“to stand”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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