AUD vs aus, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#49,485
“AUD” frequency rank: #32
“aus” frequency rank: 49517
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	AUD	aus
Definition	internationaler Währungscode für australische Dollar, die Währung von Australien	von drinnen nach draußen

Letter map: AUD vs aus

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

3 ch

AUD

3 ch

aus

Role in the sentence - AUD and aus

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: AUD is anabbrev and ausapreposition. On the page they differ by a single letter - d in “AUD” becomes s in “aus”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49517, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

AUD is recorded at frequency rank #49,485, classified as anabbrev. 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 49517, this pair ranks #1,208,538 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of AUD vs aus

Shared letters: au. Private to "AUD": d. Private to "aus": s.

"AUD" · 3 letters · shape VVC · "aus" · 3 letters · shape VVC

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

Which is more common, "AUD" or "aus"?

"aus" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32 in our German list, against #49,485 for "AUD". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "AUD" and "aus".

Full dictionary entry for "AUD" 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 #1,208,538 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"AUD" and "aus" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ata vs AUD". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #1,208,538 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.