AMPvsausWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: AMP is a abbrev, aus is a preposition, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#20,823
“AMP” frequency rank
#32
“aus” frequency rank
20855
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature AMP aus
Definition Abkürzung für Adenosinmonophosphat von drinnen nach draußen

Letter map: AMP vs aus

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

3 ch
AMP
3 ch
aus

Part-of-speech tell for AMP / aus

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: AMP is anabbrev and ausapreposition. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20855, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

AMP is recorded at frequency rank #20,823, 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 20855, this pair ranks #1,892,971 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of AMP vs aus

Shared letters: a. Private to "AMP": mp. Private to "aus": su.

"AMP" · 3 letters · shape VCC  ·  "aus" · 3 letters · shape VVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "AMP" for "aus" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "AMP" is an abbrev and "aus" a preposition, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "AMP" vs "aus" - which ranks higher?
"aus" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32 in our German list, against #20,823 for "AMP". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "AMP" and "aus". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "AMP" 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 #1,892,971 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "AMP" and "aus" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "AMP vs puzzles". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #1,892,971 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