IsmailvsstatusWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#37,595
“Ismail” frequency rank
#2,518
“status” frequency rank
40113
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Ismail status
Definition männlicher Vorname Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati

Letter map: Ismail vs status

Shared letters muted; letters that set Ismail and status apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

6 ch
Ismail
6 ch
status

Part-of-speech tell for Ismail / status

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Ismail 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 40113, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Ismail is recorded at frequency rank #37,595, 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 40113, this pair ranks #1,517,716 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Ismail vs status

Shared letters: as. Private to "Ismail": ilm. Private to "status": tu.

"Ismail" · 6 letters · shape VCCVVC  ·  "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Ismailimsail · isamil · ismaill · ismali · ismial · ismmail · issmail · simail
  • statussattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Ismail" for "status" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Ismail" is a name and "status" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Ismail" 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 #37,595 for "Ismail". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Ismail" and "status".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Ismail" 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 #1,517,716 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Ismail" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Ismail 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 #1,517,716 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