eveningvsstatementWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#46,627
“evening” frequency rank
#7,115
“statement” frequency rank
53742
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature evening statement
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs even Äußerung

Letter map: evening vs statement

Shared letters muted; letters that set evening and statement apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. evening runs 7 letters (VCVCVCC) against statement's 9 (CCVCVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
evening
9 ch
statement

Part-of-speech tell for evening / statement

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: evening is averb and statementanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53742, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

evening is recorded at frequency rank #46,627, classified as averb, pronounced […]. statement is at rank #7,115, tagged as anoun, 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 53742, this pair ranks #1,046,058 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of evening vs statement

Shared letters: en. Private to "evening": giv. Private to "statement": amst.

"evening" · 7 letters · shape VCVCVCC  ·  "statement" · 9 letters · shape CCVCVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • eveningeevning · eveinng · evenign · eveningg · eveninng · evennig · evenning · evneing
  • statementsattement · sstatement · staetment · stateemnt · statemennt · statementt · statemetn · statemment

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "evening" for "statement" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "evening" is a verb and "statement" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "evening" or "statement" show up more?
"statement" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,115 in our German list, against #46,627 for "evening". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "evening" and "statement".

  • Full dictionary entry for "evening" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "statement" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,046,058 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "evening" and "statement" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "evening 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 #1,046,058 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