aut
The verdict
“aut” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,843) as a conjunction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,843
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einen Unterschied anzeigend; oder
Corpus desk
Index DE-aut · aut · German
aut · rank #20,843 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,843
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Autogramm
Nearest frequency peer: Autogramm (+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 „aut“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- ausgesagt
ausgesagt
79,162 corpus weight
- Ausgrabungen
Ausgrabungen
79,161 corpus weight
- Ausschüsse
Ausschüsse
79,160 corpus weight
- aut
aut
79,158 corpus weight
- Autogramm
Autogramm
79,157 corpus weight
- autsch
autsch
79,156 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „aut“ 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 | aut |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „aut“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aut is neighbouring look-alikes ("AZ", "AV", …), not just typos; it is aconjunction. Frequency #20,843 among 6,976 “A” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„in Pylum deveniens, aut ibidem ommentans“ (Andr. poet. 9)
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).