AUD
The verdict
“AUD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,485) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,485
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - internationaler Währungscode für australische Dollar, die Währung von Australien
Corpus desk
Index DE-aud · AUD · German
AUD · rank #49,485 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,485
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Atze
Nearest frequency peer: Atze (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „AUD“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Athene
Athene
50,519 corpus weight
- Atze
Atze
50,517 corpus weight
- AUD
AUD
50,516 corpus weight
- aufgebracht…
aufgebrachten
50,515 corpus weight
- aufgedrückt
aufgedrückt
50,514 corpus weight
- aufwecken
aufwecken
50,513 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „AUD“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | AUD |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #49,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „AUD“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for AUD is neighbouring look-alikes ("AZ", "AV", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #49,485 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "internationaler Währungscode für australische Dollar, die Währung von Australien".
Zero misspellings are on record for AUD in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "AZ", "AV", "AW", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is AUD, spelled A-U-D.
Definition
- 1internationaler Währungscode für australische Dollar, die Währung von Australien
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how AUD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1 AUD = 100 Cents
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "AUD", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).