stats is on the Academic Word List.

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Singular
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Plural
stats

  1. (countable) (informal) Stats are numbers about information.
    New crime stats that show the number of crimes is decreasing.
    The government published new unemployment stats for the month of June.
  2. (uncountable) (informal) Stats is the science of using and understanding those numbers.
    To do research, it's important to understand simple stats such as averages and standard deviations.
    Stats is a kind of mathematics.
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