statusvsVossWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#2,518
“status” frequency rank
#10,773
“Voss” frequency rank
13291
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature status Voss
Definition Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati Fuchs

Letter map: status vs Voss

Shared letters muted; letters that set status and Voss apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. status runs 6 letters (CCVCVC) against Voss's 4 (CVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
status
4 ch
Voss

Grammar separator: status vs Voss

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: status is averb and Vossanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13291, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

status is recorded at frequency rank #2,518, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Voss is at rank #10,773, tagged as anoun, 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 13291, this pair ranks #1,958,915 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of status vs Voss

Shared letters: s. Private to "status": atu. Private to "Voss": ov.

"status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC  ·  "Voss" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • status ← sattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus
  • Voss ← ovss · voß · vsos · vvoss

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "status" and "Voss" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "status" is a verb and "Voss" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "status" or "Voss" show up more?
"status" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,518 in our German list, against #10,773 for "Voss". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "status" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Voss" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,958,915 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "status" and "Voss" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs Voss". 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 #1,958,915 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