currentvsstatusWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#31,986
“current” frequency rank
#2,518
“status” frequency rank
34504
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature current status
Definition aktuell Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati

Letter map: current vs status

Shared letters muted; letters that set current and status apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

7 ch
current
6 ch
status

Part-of-speech tell for current / status

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: current is anadjective and statusaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34504, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

current is recorded at frequency rank #31,986, classified as anadj, 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 34504, this pair ranks #1,661,856 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of current vs status

Shared letters: tu. Private to "current": cenr. Private to "status": as.

"current" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • currentccurrent · crurent · curent · curernt · currennt · currentt · curretn · currnet
  • statussattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "current" for "status" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "current" is an adjective and "status" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "current" 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 #31,986 for "current". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "current" vs "status" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "current" 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 #1,661,856 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "current" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "current 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 #1,661,856 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