aqua vs aus, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#24,610
“aqua” frequency rank: #32
“aus” frequency rank: 24642
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	aqua	aus
Definition	Wasser n	von drinnen nach draußen

Letter map: aqua vs aus

Shared letters muted; letters that set aqua and aus apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

aqua

3 ch

aus

Role in the sentence - aqua and aus

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: aqua is anoun and ausapreposition. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24642, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aqua is recorded at frequency rank #24,610, classified as anoun, 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 24642, this pair ranks #1,844,752 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of aqua vs aus

Shared letters: au. Private to "aqua": q. Private to "aus": s.

"aqua" · 4 letters · shape VCVV · "aus" · 3 letters · shape VVC

Known mistypes of this pair

aqua ← aqau · aqqua · auqa · qaua

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "aqua" for "aus" ever safe?

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

In ordinary German text, does "aqua" or "aus" show up more?

"aus" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32 in our German list, against #24,610 for "aqua". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

Full dictionary entry for "aqua" 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 #1,844,752 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"aqua" and "aus" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aqua vs puzzles". 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 #1,844,752 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.