proof vs status, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#32,721
“proof” frequency rank: #2,518
“status” frequency rank: 35239
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	proof	status
Definition	Beweis, Beweismittel	Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati

Letter map: proof vs status

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

5 ch

proof

6 ch

status

Role in the sentence - proof and status

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: proof is anoun and statusaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35239, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

proof is recorded at frequency rank #32,721, 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 35239, this pair ranks #1,644,663 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of proof vs status

Shared letters: none. Private to "proof": fopr. Private to "status": astu.

"proof" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC · "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

proof ← porof · pproof · prof · profo · prooff · prroof · rpoof
status ← sattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "proof" for "status" ever safe?

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

In ordinary German text, does "proof" 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 #32,721 for "proof". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "proof" 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 #1,644,663 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"proof" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "proof 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 #1,644,663 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.