shades vs status, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#31,790
“shades” frequency rank: #2,518
“status” frequency rank: 34308
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	shades	status
Definition	3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs shade	Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati

Letter map: shades vs status

Shared letters muted; letters that set shades and status apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

6 ch

shades

6 ch

status

Spelling & dictionary notes on shades vs status

shades 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 share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34308, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

shades is recorded at frequency rank #31,790, 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 34308, this pair ranks #1,666,277 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of shades vs status

Shared letters: as. Private to "shades": deh. Private to "status": tu.

"shades" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC · "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

shades ← hsades · sahdes · shaddes · shadess · shadse · shaeds · shdaes · shhades
status ← sattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus

Frequently Asked Questions

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

No. They share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.

Frequency check: "shades" 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 #31,790 for "shades". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

Full dictionary entry for "shades" 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 #1,666,277 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"shades" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs shades". 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 #1,666,277 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.