AUX
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The verdict
“AUX” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,814) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,814
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kürzel für einen zusätzlichen Eingang zur freien Verwendung (bei Geräten wie zum Beispiel Verstärkern)
Corpus desk
Index DE-aux · AUX · German
AUX · rank #18,814 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,814
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH auszuprobieren
Nearest frequency peer: auszuprobieren (-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 „AUX“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- ausreichend…
ausreichenden
81,190 corpus weight
- ausreichend…
ausreichender
81,189 corpus weight
- auszuprobie…
auszuprobieren
81,188 corpus weight
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What this shows Balken platzieren „AUX“ 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 | AUX |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „AUX“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for AUX is neighbouring look-alikes ("AZ", "AV", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #18,814 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Kürzel für einen zusätzlichen Eingang zur freien Verwendung (bei Geräten wie zum Beispiel Verstärkern)".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for AUX, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is AUX, spelled A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Kürzel für einen zusätzlichen Eingang zur freien Verwendung (bei Geräten wie zum Beispiel Verstärkern)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how AUX appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bei AUX ist der Plattenspieler angeschlossen.
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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