RobertavsstatusConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#44,182
“Roberta” frequency rank
#2,518
“status” frequency rank
46700
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Roberta status
Definition Nominativ Singular bestimmte Form des weiblichen Vornamens Robertë („Roberta“) Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati

Letter map: Roberta vs status

Shared letters muted; letters that set Roberta and status apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

7 ch
Roberta
6 ch
status

Role in the sentence - Roberta and status

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Roberta is anunknown and statusaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46700, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Roberta is recorded at frequency rank #44,182, classified as anunknown, 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 46700, this pair ranks #1,310,047 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Roberta vs status

Shared letters: at. Private to "Roberta": beor. Private to "status": su.

"Roberta" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV  ·  "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Robertaorberta · rboerta · robberta · roberat · roberrta · robertta · robetra · robreta
  • statussattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Roberta" for "status" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Roberta" is an unknown and "status" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Roberta" 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 #44,182 for "Roberta". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Roberta" 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 #1,310,047 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Roberta" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs Roberta". 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 #1,310,047 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