sera vs sta, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#33,291
“sera” frequency rank: #18,707
“sta” frequency rank: 51998
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	sera	sta
Definition	Plural des Substantivs serum	Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs star (unabhängig von Person und Numerus)

Letter map: sera vs sta

Shared letters muted; letters that set sera and sta apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

sera

3 ch

sta

Role in the sentence - sera and sta

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sera is anoun and staaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51998, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sera is recorded at frequency rank #33,291, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. sta is at rank #18,707, 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 51998, this pair ranks #1,113,845 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sera vs sta

Shared letters: as. Private to "sera": er. Private to "sta": t.

"sera" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "sta" · 3 letters · shape CCV

Known mistypes of this pair

sera ← sear · srea · ssera

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "sera" and "sta" be used interchangeably?

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

Frequency check: "sera" vs "sta" - which ranks higher?

"sta" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,707 in our German list, against #33,291 for "sera". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "sera" and "sta".

Full dictionary entry for "sera" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "sta" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,113,845 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"sera" and "sta" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs sera". 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 #1,113,845 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.