aggregatevsstatusTell them apart

Quick tell: aggregate is a noun, status is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“aggregate” is a noun and “status” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#42,316
“aggregate” frequency rank
#2,518
“status” frequency rank
44834
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aggregate status
Definition Anhäufung, Komplex, Gesamtsumme, Gesamtheit Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati

Letter map: aggregate vs status

Shared letters muted; letters that set aggregate and status apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

9 ch
aggregate
6 ch
status

Part-of-speech tell for aggregate / status

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: aggregate is anoun and statusaverb. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44834, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aggregate is recorded at frequency rank #42,316, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. status is at rank #2,518, tagged as averb, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 44834, this pair ranks #1,373,254 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of aggregate vs status

Shared letters: at. Private to "aggregate": egr. Private to "status": su.

"aggregate" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVCV  ·  "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • aggregateaggergate · aggreagte · aggregaet · aggregatte · aggreggate · aggregtae · aggrgeate · aggrregate
  • statussattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "aggregate" for "status" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "aggregate" is a noun and "status" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "aggregate" or "status"?
"status" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,518 in our German list, against #42,316 for "aggregate". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "aggregate" and "status".

  • Full dictionary entry for "aggregate" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "status" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,373,254 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aggregate" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aggregate vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,373,254 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list