AP vs aus, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#8,822
“AP” frequency rank: #32
“aus” frequency rank: 8854
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	AP	aus
Definition	Accounts Payable	von drinnen nach draußen

Letter map: AP vs aus

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

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Role in the sentence - AP and aus

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: AP is anabbrev and ausapreposition. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 8854, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

AP is recorded at frequency rank #8,822, 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 8854, this pair ranks #1,982,517 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of AP vs aus

Shared letters: a. Private to "AP": p. Private to "aus": su.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "AP" and "aus" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

Which is more common, "AP" or "aus"?

"aus" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32 in our German list, against #8,822 for "AP". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "AP" vs "aus" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

Full dictionary entry for "AP" 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 #1,982,517 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"AP" and "aus" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "AP vs puzzles". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #1,982,517 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.