RAevsrausTell them apart

Quick tell: RAe is a abbrev, raus is an adverb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“RAe” is an abbrev and “raus” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#46,218
“RAe” frequency rank
#557
“raus” frequency rank
46775
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature RAe raus
Definition Rechtsanwälte schnell gesprochenes, in flüssiger Rede und umgangssprachlich und in vielen Dialekten auftauchendes heraus oder hinaus

Letter map: RAe vs raus

Shared letters muted; letters that set RAe and raus apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. RAe runs 3 letters (CVV) against raus's 4 (CVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

3 ch
RAe
4 ch
raus

Part-of-speech tell for RAe / raus

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: RAe is anabbrev and rausanadverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46775, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

RAe is recorded at frequency rank #46,218, classified as anabbrev, pronounced […]. raus is at rank #557, tagged as anadv, pronounced [ʁaʊ̯s].

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 46775, this pair ranks #1,307,429 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of RAe vs raus

Shared letters: ar. Private to "RAe": e. Private to "raus": su.

"RAe" · 3 letters · shape CVV  ·  "raus" · 4 letters · shape CVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • raus ← arus · rasu · rauss · rraus · ruas

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "RAe" and "raus" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "RAe" is an abbrev and "raus" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "RAe" or "raus" show up more?
"raus" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #557 in our German list, against #46,218 for "RAe". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "RAe" vs "raus" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "RAe" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "raus" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,307,429 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "RAe" and "raus" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs RAe". 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 #1,307,429 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