legovsstatusTell them apart

Which to use

“lego” and “status” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#11,085
“lego” frequency rank
#2,518
“status” frequency rank
13603
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature lego status
Definition 1. Person Singular Präsens Aktiv des Verbs legare Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati

Letter map: lego vs status

Shared letters muted; letters that set lego and status apart highlighted. No shared letter run. lego runs 4 letters (CVCV) against status's 6 (CCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
lego
6 ch
status

Spelling & dictionary notes on lego vs status

lego and status are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13603, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lego is recorded at frequency rank #11,085, classified as averb, 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 13603, this pair ranks #1,956,903 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of lego vs status

Shared letters: none. Private to "lego": eglo. Private to "status": astu.

"lego" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • lego ← elgo · leggo · leog · lgeo · llego
  • status ← sattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "lego" and "status" be used interchangeably?
No. They differ by 2 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "lego" 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 #11,085 for "lego". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "lego" 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 #1,956,903 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "lego" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lego 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 #1,956,903 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