Which to use
“foods” is a noun and “status” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #43,879
- “foods” frequency rank
- #2,518
- “status” frequency rank
- 46397
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | foods | status |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Plural des Substantivs food | Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati |
Letter map: foods vs status
Shared letters muted; letters that set foods and status apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. foods runs 5 letters (CVVCC) against status's 6 (CCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for foods / status
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: foods is anoun and statusaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46397, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
foods is recorded at frequency rank #43,879, 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 46397, this pair ranks #1,320,498 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of foods vs status
Shared letters: s. Private to "foods": dfo. Private to "status": atu.
"foods" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC · "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "foods" and "status" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary German text, does "foods" or "status" show up more?
Useful next steps
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "foods" and "status".
- Full dictionary entry for "foods" 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 #1,320,498 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "foods" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "foods 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 #1,320,498 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.