at vs ATX, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“at” is a noun and “ATX” is an abbrev - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,799
“at” frequency rank: #38,590
“ATX” frequency rank: 40389
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	at	ATX
Definition	großer Einhufer; Pferd	Austrian Traded Index

Letter map: at vs ATX

Shared letters muted; letters that set at and ATX apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

2 ch

3 ch

ATX

Part-of-speech tell for at / ATX

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: at is anoun and ATXanabbrev. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “at” sits inside “ATX”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40389, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

at is recorded at frequency rank #1,799, classified as anoun, pronounced [ɑt]. ATX is at rank #38,590, tagged as anabbrev, pronounced […].

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 40389, this pair ranks #1,509,894 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of at vs ATX

Shared letters: at. Private to "at": -. Private to "ATX": x.

"at" · 2 letters · shape VC · "ATX" · 3 letters · shape VCC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "at" for "ATX" ever safe?

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

Which is more common, "at" or "ATX"?

"at" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,799 in our German list, against #38,590 for "ATX". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "at" and "ATX". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "at" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "ATX" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,509,894 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"at" and "ATX" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ATX vs puzzles". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #1,509,894 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.