comingvsstatusConfusable pair

Which to use

“coming” and “status” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#14,769
“coming” frequency rank
#2,518
“status” frequency rank
17287
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature coming status
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs come Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati

Letter map: coming vs status

Shared letters muted; letters that set coming and status apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

6 ch
coming
6 ch
status

Corpus notes: coming and status

coming and status are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 6 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17287, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

coming is recorded at frequency rank #14,769, classified as averb, 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 17287, this pair ranks #1,928,717 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of coming vs status

Shared letters: none. Private to "coming": cgimno. Private to "status": astu.

"coming" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC  ·  "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • comingccoming · cmoing · coimng · comign · comingg · cominng · comming · comnig
  • statussattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "coming" for "status" ever safe?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 6 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "coming" vs "status" - which ranks higher?
"status" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,518 in our German list, against #14,769 for "coming". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "coming" 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 #1,928,717 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "coming" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "coming 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 #1,928,717 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