nuclearvsstatusTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#37,705
“nuclear” frequency rank
#2,518
“status” frequency rank
40223
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature nuclear status
Definition nuklear, Nuklear- Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati

Letter map: nuclear vs status

Shared letters muted; letters that set nuclear and status apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

7 ch
nuclear
6 ch
status

Role in the sentence - nuclear and status

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: nuclear is anadjective and statusaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40223, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

nuclear is recorded at frequency rank #37,705, classified as anadj, 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 40223, this pair ranks #1,514,659 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of nuclear vs status

Shared letters: au. Private to "nuclear": celnr. Private to "status": st.

"nuclear" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC  ·  "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • nuclearnculear · nnuclear · nucclear · nucelar · nuclaer · nuclearr · nuclera · nucllear
  • statussattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "nuclear" for "status" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "nuclear" is an adjective and "status" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "nuclear" 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 #37,705 for "nuclear". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "nuclear" 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 #1,514,659 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "nuclear" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "nuclear 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 #1,514,659 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