committeevsstatusConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#30,499
“committee” frequency rank
#2,518
“status” frequency rank
33017
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature committee status
Definition Ausschuss, Komitee, Gremium, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati

Letter map: committee vs status

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

9 ch
committee
6 ch
status

Part-of-speech tell for committee / status

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: committee is anoun and statusaverb. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33017, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

committee is recorded at frequency rank #30,499, 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 33017, this pair ranks #1,695,075 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of committee vs status

Shared letters: t. Private to "committee": ceimo. Private to "status": asu.

"committee" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV  ·  "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • committeeccommittee · cmomittee · comimttee · comittee · commitee · commitete · committe · commtitee
  • statussattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "committee" and "status" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "committee" is a noun and "status" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "committee" or "status"?
"status" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,518 in our German list, against #30,499 for "committee". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "committee" 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 #1,695,075 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "committee" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "committee 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 #1,695,075 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