StatuenvsstatusWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#17,730
“Statuen” frequency rank
#2,518
“status” frequency rank
20248
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Statuen status
Definition Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Statue Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati

Letter map: Statuen vs status

Shared letters muted; letters that set Statuen and status apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

7 ch
Statuen
6 ch
status

Part-of-speech tell for Statuen / status

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Statuen is anoun and statusaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20248, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Statuen is recorded at frequency rank #17,730, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈʃtaːtuən]. 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 20248, this pair ranks #1,899,730 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Statuen vs status

Shared letters: astu. Private to "Statuen": en. Private to "status": -.

"Statuen" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVVC  ·  "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Statuensattuen · sstatuen · stateun · stattuen · statuenn · statune · stauten · sttatuen
  • statussattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Statuen" for "status" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Statuen" is a noun and "status" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Statuen" 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 #17,730 for "Statuen". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Statuen" 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 #1,899,730 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Statuen" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Statuen vs Stuten". 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 #1,899,730 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