What’s the plural of “status”?
Statuses and status are both accepted plural forms of status. Status is the more commonly used plural of the two.
The different project statuses need to be updated.
The various client status are tracked on the board.
The employee’s various statuses is listed here.
Several different account status was reported as pending.
What’s the singular of status?
Status can be used in both the singular and plural noun case.
What does the word status mean?
The word status is defined as “the relative social, professional, or other standing of someone or something.” Also, “the position or rank in relation to others”.
Other Latin nouns
“status” plurals, associate “statuses” with the more common “-es” plural pattern, and note that “status” (as a plural) requires a plural verb.
Examples of the word status used in sentences
1. The status of a father.
2. People of different social and economic statuses.
3. They want to maintain the city’s status as a major tourist attraction.
4. He wants to improve his status in the community.
5. She married a man of status and wealth.
Examples of status/statuses used in application:
All sentence examples of status are from Merriam-Webster, status:
1. This job brings with it a measure of status.
2. All eyes are on Aaron Rodgers’ status after his injury on Sunday Night Football.
3. For the last decade, about 800,000 individuals who came to the United States as children but have no legal status have been protected from deportation by a program commonly referred to as DACA. (Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2022)
4. Despite his recent elevation to Mao-like status, Mr. Xi’s control may not be as total as Party propagandists suggest. The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
5. They sought asylum and were given refugee status by the government.
Origin of the word status
From etymology online on status (n.):
1670s, “height” of a situation or condition, later “legal standing of a person” (1791), from Latin status “condition, position, state, manner, attitude,” from past participle stem of stare “to stand.”
Read more about nouns
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| plural-only nouns | …moose? |
| mass nouns | …octopus? |
| collective nouns | …cactus? |
| abstract nouns vs. concrete nouns | …analysis? |
| possessive nouns | …curriculum? |
| regular and irregular nouns | …crisis? |
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Work Sheet
According to the blog post, what are the accepted plural forms of “status”?
Which plural form of “status” is mentioned in the post as the more commonly used one?
Based on the usage notes, if you use the plural form “statuses”, what kind of verb should you use?
The blog post shows the sentence “The various client status are tracked on the board” as correct usage. This demonstrates that “status”, when used as a plural, requires what kind of verb?
Why does the blog post mark “The employee’s various statuses is listed here” with an ‘X’?
The different project need to be updated.
The various client are tracked on the board.
When using either accepted plural form of “status”, the associated verb should typically be .
The singular form of the word “status” is .
Using the plural form “status” with a singular verb like “was”, as in “Several different account status was reported”, is considered usage according to the blog post.
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Yash, D. "What’s the Plural of Status?." Grammarflex, Jun 6, 2025, https://www.grammarflex.com/whats-the-plural-of-status/.
