parksvsstatusConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#9,248
“parks” frequency rank
#2,518
“status” frequency rank
11766
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature parks status
Definition Plural des Substantivs park Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati

Letter map: parks vs status

Shared letters muted; letters that set parks and status apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. parks runs 5 letters (CVCCC) against status's 6 (CCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
parks
6 ch
status

Part-of-speech tell for parks / status

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: parks is anoun and statusaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11766, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

parks is recorded at frequency rank #9,248, 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 11766, this pair ranks #1,968,022 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of parks vs status

Shared letters: as. Private to "parks": kpr. Private to "status": tu.

"parks" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC  ·  "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • parks ← aprks · pakrs · parkks · parkss · parrks · parsk · pparks · praks
  • status ← sattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "parks" for "status" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "parks" is a noun and "status" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "parks" 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 #9,248 for "parks". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "parks" 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 #1,968,022 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "parks" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "parks 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 #1,968,022 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