status S₁T₁A₁T₁U₁S₁

STATUS has several connected senses: a person’s standing among others, their prestige, or the state of a situation. It also names the legal condition of a person or thing. Context supplies the distinction: “job status” describes a condition, while “social status” points to standing. A qualifier usually makes the intended sense clear.

STATUS meaning and quick facts

• STATUS has six letters and a Scrabble value of 6.
• Each of its six tiles is worth 1 point before board bonuses.
• ASSTTU is its sorted letter set; SUTTAS is its sole listed anagram.
• Three one-letter neighbors are STATES, STATUE, and STATUA.
• STATUS rhymes with 12 listed words, including LOTUS, CACTUS, and HIATUS.

What does STATUS mean?

The meaning shifts with the noun STATUS describes. “The project’s status” means its current state; “a person of high status” means prestige or social standing. Legal status refers to a person’s or thing’s condition under the law. The word can name either a changing situation or a position recognized by other people or institutions.

STATUS is common English rather than a game-only curiosity: its recorded frequency count is 12,743, with a frequency rank of 1,397. Its Scrabble value remains just 6 because S, T, A, T, U, and S each carry one point. Save it for a premium square; its letters alone do not build a large total.

Which words rhyme with or differ from STATUS?

STATUS has one listed anagram, SUTTAS, built from the same letters in a different order. STATUS is the familiar everyday word; SUTTAS is much less familiar, so check your game's word list before placing the rearrangement. The six-point total for STATUS does not automatically transfer to a different board position or bonus square.

Three one-letter neighbors appear: STATES, STATUE, and STATUA. Each changes one tile, and the shared opening STAT makes them easy to confuse during a rack check. STATUS also rhymes with 12 words, including LOTUS, CACTUS, and HIATUS. APPARATUS and EUCALYPTUS share that final “tus” sound, but rhyme does not mean their letters can be swapped into an anagram.