AssivsausWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#29,933
“Assi” frequency rank
#32
“aus” frequency rank
29965
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Assi aus
Definition Asozialer von drinnen nach draußen

Letter map: Assi vs aus

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

4 ch
Assi
3 ch
aus

Role in the sentence - Assi and aus

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Assi is anoun and ausapreposition. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29965, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Assi is recorded at frequency rank #29,933, classified as anoun. 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 29965, this pair ranks #1,756,887 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Assi vs aus

Shared letters: as. Private to "Assi": i. Private to "aus": u.

"Assi" · 4 letters · shape VCCV  ·  "aus" · 3 letters · shape VVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Assiasis · aßi · sasi

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "Assi" and "aus" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Assi" is a noun and "aus" a preposition, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Assi" or "aus" show up more?
"aus" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32 in our German list, against #29,933 for "Assi". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Assi" 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 #1,756,887 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Assi" and "aus" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Assi vs auss". 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 #1,756,887 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