piste vs posted, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#17,679
“piste” frequency rank: #44,144
“posted” frequency rank: 61823
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	piste	posted
Definition	Punkt	Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs post

Letter map: piste vs posted

Shared letters muted; letters that set piste and posted apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

5 ch

piste

6 ch

posted

Role in the sentence - piste and posted

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: piste is anoun and postedaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61823, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

piste is recorded at frequency rank #17,679, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈpiste]. posted is at rank #44,144, 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 61823, this pair ranks #735,337 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of piste vs posted

Shared letters: epst. Private to "piste": i. Private to "posted": do.

"piste" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "posted" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

piste ← ipste · piset · pisste · pistte · pitse · ppiste · psite
posted ← opsted · posetd · possted · postde · postedd · postted · potsed · pposted

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "piste" for "posted" ever safe?

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

Which is more common, "piste" or "posted"?

"piste" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,679 in our German list, against #44,144 for "posted". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "piste" and "posted". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "piste" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "posted" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #735,337 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"piste" and "posted" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "posted 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 #735,337 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.