issue vs status, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#37,597
“issue” frequency rank: #2,518
“status” frequency rank: 40115
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	issue	status
Definition	ein Thema, über das diskutiert wird	Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati

Letter map: issue vs status

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

5 ch

issue

6 ch

status

Grammar separator: issue vs status

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: issue is anoun and statusaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40115, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

issue is recorded at frequency rank #37,597, 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 40115, this pair ranks #1,517,657 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of issue vs status

Shared letters: su. Private to "issue": ei. Private to "status": at.

"issue" · 5 letters · shape VCCVV · "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

issue ← isseu · isue · isuse · ißue · sisue
status ← sattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "issue" and "status" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "issue" is a noun and "status" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "issue" vs "status" - which ranks higher?

"status" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,518 in our German list, against #37,597 for "issue". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "issue" vs "status" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

Full dictionary entry for "issue" 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 #1,517,657 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"issue" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "issue 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 #1,517,657 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.