ATX vs aus, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#38,590
“ATX” frequency rank: #32
“aus” frequency rank: 38622
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	ATX	aus
Definition	Austrian Traded Index	von drinnen nach draußen

Letter map: ATX vs aus

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

3 ch

ATX

3 ch

aus

Part-of-speech tell for ATX / aus

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ATX is anabbrev and ausapreposition. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38622, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ATX is recorded at frequency rank #38,590, 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 38622, this pair ranks #1,559,082 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of ATX vs aus

Shared letters: a. Private to "ATX": tx. Private to "aus": su.

"ATX" · 3 letters · shape VCC · "aus" · 3 letters · shape VVC

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

Frequency check: "ATX" vs "aus" - which ranks higher?

"aus" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32 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.

What to do next

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

Full dictionary entry for "ATX" 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 #1,559,082 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"ATX" and "aus" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ATX vs puzzles". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #1,559,082 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.