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status

/ˈsteɪt.əs/noun

status is spelled S-T-A-T-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is statis: about 510 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 21 of all searches for the word. Status is a noun meaning “A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others”. The plural of status is statuses; Wiktionary also lists stati (hypercorrect).

How many letters and syllables are in status?

Letters6: S-T-A-T-U-S
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing74 times per million words; the 1,427th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, statis, about 510 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 status?

Status is spelled S-T-A-T-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 21 of the searches for status in either form.

statusthe right spelling10,090 searches a month
statisi in place of u510 searches a month

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 status?

Status appears 74 times per million words in written English, the 1,427th 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 status?

  • UK /ˈsteɪ.təs/
  • US /ˈsteɪt.əs/
  • US [ˈsteɪɾ.əs]

Status 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-gb-status.ogg, En-us-status.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with status?

7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as status from its last stressed vowel (/eɪtəs/):

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 status

  • statuses plural
  • stati hypercorrect, plural

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

What does status mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.

    Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.

  2. 2

    Prestige or high standing.

  3. 3

    A situation or state of affairs.

    Near-synonym: footing

  4. 4

    The legal condition of a person or thing.

  5. 5

    CanadaThe state (of a Canadian First Nations person) of being registered under the Indian Act.

    He is a status Indian.

  6. 6

    A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.

    I'm just about to update my status to "busy".

  7. 7

    Short for status epilepticus or status asthmaticus.

noun

as statūs
  1. 1

    rareplural of status (a form of status)

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

Status in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchétat (person’s position or standing), statut (situation or state of affairs – see also state)
GermanStatus (person’s position or standing), Stand (situation or state of affairs – see also state), Ansehen (prestige or high standing)
Portuguesestatus (person’s position or standing), estado (situation or state of affairs – see also state)
Spanishestatus, status (person’s position or standing)

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 status come from?

A learned borrowing from Latin status. A doublet of state and estate. Displaced native Old English hād (“rank, status”).

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

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