aut
The verdict
“aut” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #20,843 in German word frequency and used as a conjunction.
- #20,843
- frequency rank, German
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - einen Unterschied anzeigend; oder
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 | aut |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aut” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for aut is 3 letters long, classified as a conjunction. Corpus data places it at rank #20,843 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for aut in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "AZ", "AV", "AW", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is aut, spelled A-U-T.
Definition
- 1einen Unterschied anzeigend; oder
- 2einen Unterschied in aufsteigend Reihenfolge anzeigend; oder sogar, oder vielmehr
- 3einen Unterschied in absteigender Reihenfolge anzeigend; oder auch, oder doch, oder wenigstens
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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Using “aut”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-U-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “AZ” - see the side-by-side comparison. aut vs AZ
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.