Goal: you will know what a Static Front page is, and you will be able to set up a Static Front Page on your WordPress site.
Pre-requisites: you need to know the difference between Pages and Post.
What is a Static Front Page
By default, WordPress displays a list of Posts on the home page of your site. This list of posts is automatically updated as soon as new posts are published, thus this is not static. Also, there is no need to create any page in order to have WordPress displaying this list of posts.
A Static Front Page is a specific Page used as the Home Page of the site.
How to create a Static Front Page
Reminder: to create a page, go to Pages > Add New