communitiesvsstatusWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#26,353
“communities” frequency rank
#2,518
“status” frequency rank
28871
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature communities status
Definition Plural des Substantivs community Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati

Letter map: communities vs status

Shared letters muted; letters that set communities and status apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. communities runs 11 letters (CVCCVCVCVVC) against status's 6 (CCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
communities
6 ch
status

Part-of-speech tell for communities / status

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: communities is anoun and statusaverb. On the page they differ by 5 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28871, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

communities is recorded at frequency rank #26,353, 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 28871, this pair ranks #1,777,089 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of communities vs status

Shared letters: stu. Private to "communities": ceimno. Private to "status": a.

"communities" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVVC  ·  "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • communities ← ccommunities · cmomunities · commnuities · commuinties · communiites · communiteis · communitiess · communitise
  • status ← sattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "communities" and "status" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "communities" is a noun and "status" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "communities" or "status" show up more?
"status" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,518 in our German list, against #26,353 for "communities". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "communities" and "status". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "communities" 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 #1,777,089 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "communities" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "communities 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 #1,777,089 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