Which to use
“goodbye” is an intj and “status” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #24,369
- “goodbye” frequency rank
- #2,518
- “status” frequency rank
- 26887
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | goodbye | status |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | auf Wiedersehen | Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati |
Letter map: goodbye vs status
Shared letters muted; letters that set goodbye and status apart highlighted. No shared letter run.
Part-of-speech tell for goodbye / status
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: goodbye is anintj and statusaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26887, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
goodbye is recorded at frequency rank #24,369, classified as anintj, 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 26887, this pair ranks #1,810,770 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of goodbye vs status
Shared letters: none. Private to "goodbye": bdegoy. Private to "status": astu.
"goodbye" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVV · "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "goodbye" for "status" ever safe?
Frequency check: "goodbye" vs "status" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "goodbye" and "status".
- Full dictionary entry for "goodbye" 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 #1,810,770 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "goodbye" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "goodbye 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 #1,810,770 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.