statusvsStatutTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#2,518
“status” frequency rank
#42,844
“Statut” frequency rank
45362
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature status Statut
Definition Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati Gesamtheit der Bestimmungen, nach denen eine Institution/Organisation arbeiten soll

Letter map: status vs Statut

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

6 ch
status
6 ch
Statut

Part-of-speech tell for status / Statut

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: status is averb and Statutanoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - s in “status” becomes t in “Statut”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45362, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

status is recorded at frequency rank #2,518, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Statut is at rank #42,844, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ʃtaˈtuːt].

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 45362, this pair ranks #1,355,602 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of status vs Statut

Shared letters: astu. Private to "status": -. Private to "Statut": -.

"status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC  ·  "Statut" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • statussattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus
  • Statutsattut · sstatut · stattu · stattut · statutt · sttatut · tsatut

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "status" for "Statut" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "status" is a verb and "Statut" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "status" or "Statut"?
"status" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,518 in our German list, against #42,844 for "Statut". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "status" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Statut" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,355,602 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "status" and "Statut" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "stattet vs Statut". 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 #1,355,602 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