pricevsstatusWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#14,654
“price” frequency rank
#2,518
“status” frequency rank
17172
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature price status
Definition Preis Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati

Letter map: price vs status

Shared letters muted; letters that set price and status apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

5 ch
price
6 ch
status

Role in the sentence - price and status

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: price is anoun and statusaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17172, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

price is recorded at frequency rank #14,654, 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 17172, this pair ranks #1,929,735 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of price vs status

Shared letters: none. Private to "price": ceipr. Private to "status": astu.

"price" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV  ·  "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • pricepirce · pprice · prcie · pricce · priec · prrice · rpice
  • statussattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "price" for "status" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "price" is a noun and "status" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "price" 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 #14,654 for "price". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "price" 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 #1,929,735 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "price" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "price 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 #1,929,735 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