recordingvsstatusConfusable pair

Which to use

“recording” and “status” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#44,871
“recording” frequency rank
#2,518
“status” frequency rank
47389
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature recording status
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs record Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati

Letter map: recording vs status

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

9 ch
recording
6 ch
status

Pair insight - recording / status

recording and status are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47389, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

recording is recorded at frequency rank #44,871, classified as averb, 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 47389, this pair ranks #1,285,973 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of recording vs status

Shared letters: none. Private to "recording": cdeginor. Private to "status": astu.

"recording" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCC  ·  "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • recordingercording · rceording · reccording · recodring · recordding · recordign · recordingg · recordinng
  • statussattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "recording" for "status" ever safe?
No. They differ by 3 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "recording" 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 #44,871 for "recording". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "recording" 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 #1,285,973 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "recording" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs recording". 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 #1,285,973 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