aus
[aws]
The verdict
“aus” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,949) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,949
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de au.
Corpus desk
Index ES-aus · aus · Spanish
aus · rank #33,949 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,949
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH atlética
Nearest frequency peer: atlética (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “aus”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Arrieta
Arrieta
66,055 corpus weight
- atajos
atajos
66,054 corpus weight
- atlética
atlética
66,053 corpus weight
- aus
aus
66,052 corpus weight
- automovilis…
automovilismo
66,051 corpus weight
- autosuficie…
autosuficiente
66,050 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “aus” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | aus |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aws] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “aus”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aus is neighbouring look-alikes ("ay", "av", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [aws]. Frequency #33,949 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Forma del plural de au.".
Zero misspellings are on record for aus in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "av", "az", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is aus, spelled A-U-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de au.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).