aresvsaufsTell them apart

Quick tell: ares is a verb, aufs is an abbrev, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“ares” is a verb and “aufs” is an abbrev - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#41,652
“ares” frequency rank
#1,005
“aufs” frequency rank
42657
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ares aufs
Definition 2. Person Singular Konjunktiv Präsens Aktiv des Verbs arare auf das

Letter map: ares vs aufs

Shared letters muted; letters that set ares and aufs apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
ares
4 ch
aufs

Part-of-speech tell for ares / aufs

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ares is averb and aufsanabbrev. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42657, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ares is recorded at frequency rank #41,652, classified as averb, pronounced […]. aufs is at rank #1,005, tagged as anabbrev, pronounced [aʊ̯fs].

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 42657, this pair ranks #1,442,608 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of ares vs aufs

Shared letters: as. Private to "ares": er. Private to "aufs": fu.

"ares" · 4 letters · shape VCVC  ·  "aufs" · 4 letters · shape VVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • aresaers · aress · arres · arse · raes
  • aufsafus · auffs · aufss · ausf · uafs

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "ares" and "aufs" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ares" is a verb and "aufs" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "ares" or "aufs"?
"aufs" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,005 in our German list, against #41,652 for "ares". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "ares" vs "aufs" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "ares" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "aufs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,442,608 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ares" and "aufs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ares 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 #1,442,608 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