vital statistics

noun

"vital-statistics" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“vital statistics” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
16
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Statistics of births, marriages and deaths.

Corpus desk

Index EN-vital-statistics · vital statistics · English

vital statistics · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 16 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "V" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for vital statistics
PropertyValue
Headwordvital statistics
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “vital statistics” in English

vital statisticssits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

vital statistics is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vital statistics, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is vital statistics, spelled V-I-T-A-L- -S-T-A-T-I-S-T-I-C-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Statistics of births, marriages and deaths.
  2. 2
    The size of a woman's bust, waist and hips, normally measured in inches.
  3. 3
    A concise set of trivia on a subject, sometimes in table format.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how vital statistics appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The Office of National Statistics maintains Britain's vital statistics.
  2. My vital statistics are 41, 19, 36.

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vital statistics"?
"vital statistics" is spelled V-I-T-A-L- -S-T-A-T-I-S-T-I-C-S.
What does "vital statistics" mean?
As a noun, "vital statistics" means: Statistics of births, marriages and deaths.
What language does "vital statistics" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list