GordonvsstatusConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#8,568
“Gordon” frequency rank
#2,518
“status” frequency rank
11086
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Gordon status
Definition englischer männlicher Vorname Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati

Letter map: Gordon vs status

Shared letters muted; letters that set Gordon and status apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

6 ch
Gordon
6 ch
status

Part-of-speech tell for Gordon / status

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Gordon is aname and statusaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 6 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11086, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Gordon is recorded at frequency rank #8,568, classified as aname, 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 11086, this pair ranks #1,971,773 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Gordon vs status

Shared letters: none. Private to "Gordon": dgnor. Private to "status": astu.

"Gordon" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC  ·  "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Gordonggordon · godron · gorddon · gordno · gordonn · gorodn · gorrdon · grodon
  • statussattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Gordon" and "status" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Gordon" is a name and "status" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Gordon" 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 #8,568 for "Gordon". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "Gordon" and "status". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Gordon" 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 #1,971,773 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Gordon" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Gordon 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 #1,971,773 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