aufs vs aut, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#1,005
“aufs” frequency rank: #20,843
“aut” frequency rank: 21848
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	aufs	aut
Definition	auf das	einen Unterschied anzeigend; oder

Letter map: aufs vs aut

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

4 ch

aufs

3 ch

aut

Grammar separator: aufs vs aut

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: aufs is anabbrev and autaconjunction. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21848, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aufs is recorded at frequency rank #1,005, classified as anabbrev, pronounced [aʊ̯fs]. aut is at rank #20,843, tagged as aconj.

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 21848, this pair ranks #1,881,420 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of aufs vs aut

Shared letters: au. Private to "aufs": fs. Private to "aut": t.

"aufs" · 4 letters · shape VVCC · "aut" · 3 letters · shape VVC

Known mistypes of this pair

aufs ← afus · auffs · aufss · ausf · uafs

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "aufs" and "aut" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

Frequency check: "aufs" vs "aut" - which ranks higher?

"aufs" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,005 in our German list, against #20,843 for "aut". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "aufs" and "aut". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "aufs" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "aut" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,881,420 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"aufs" and "aut" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "AUD vs aut". 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 #1,881,420 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.