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How to spell statistics

hear itsta·tis·tics/stə'tɪstɪks/nounAcademic

What it means: The study of data collection and interpretation.

In a sentence: The teacher showed us how to use statistics by counting our favorite colors.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as statitics or statictics.

How learners on Spelling.School have misspelled it: zzz

Same family: statistical, statistically, statistician, data, probability. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Statistics” comes from the New Latin word ‘statisticus,’ meaning ‘of the state,’ because early statistics were collected by governments about populations and taxes. Over time, it grew into a whole branch of mathematics used in science, business, and everyday life.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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