extrasvsstatusWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#23,927
“extras” frequency rank
#2,518
“status” frequency rank
26445
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature extras status
Definition Plural des Substantivs extra Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati

Letter map: extras vs status

Shared letters muted; letters that set extras and status apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

6 ch
extras
6 ch
status

Part-of-speech tell for extras / status

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: extras is anoun and statusaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 5 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26445, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

extras is recorded at frequency rank #23,927, 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 26445, this pair ranks #1,817,991 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of extras vs status

Shared letters: ast. Private to "extras": erx. Private to "status": u.

"extras" · 6 letters · shape VCCCVC  ·  "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • extrasetxras · exrtas · extars · extrass · extrras · extrsa · exttras · exxtras
  • statussattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "extras" for "status" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "extras" is a noun and "status" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "extras" 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 #23,927 for "extras". 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 "extras" and "status".

  • Full dictionary entry for "extras" 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 #1,817,991 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "extras" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "extras 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 #1,817,991 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