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How to spell status

hear itsta·tus/'steɪtəs/nounRules and real life

What it means: A state at a particular time.

In a sentence: My mom checked the status of my favorite game online.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as statas or stutus.

Same family: statused, statuses, status update, status quo, state. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Status comes from Latin ‘status,’ meaning ‘condition, position, or standing,’ from the verb ‘stare,’ which means ‘to stand.’ That same Latin root also gave us English words like ‘state,’ ‘statue,’ and ‘stand.’

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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