AK vs aus, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“AK” is an abbrev and “aus” is a preposition - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#7,144
“AK” frequency rank: #32
“aus” frequency rank: 7176
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	AK	aus
Definition	Abendkasse	von drinnen nach draußen

Letter map: AK vs aus

Shared letters muted; letters that set AK and aus apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

2 ch

3 ch

aus

Role in the sentence - AK and aus

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: AK is anabbrev and ausapreposition. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7176, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

AK is recorded at frequency rank #7,144, classified as anabbrev, pronounced […]. aus is at rank #32, tagged as aprep, pronounced [aʊ̯s].

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 7176, this pair ranks #1,989,126 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of AK vs aus

Shared letters: a. Private to "AK": k. Private to "aus": su.

"AK" · 2 letters · shape VC · "aus" · 3 letters · shape VVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "AK" and "aus" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "AK" is an abbrev and "aus" a preposition, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "AK" vs "aus" - which ranks higher?

"aus" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32 in our German list, against #7,144 for "AK". 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 "AK" and "aus".

Full dictionary entry for "AK" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "aus" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,989,126 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"AK" and "aus" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "AK vs puzzles". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #1,989,126 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.