aut
/ˈawt/
The verdict
“aut” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,662) as a conjunction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,662
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - O
Corpus desk
Index ES-aut · aut · Spanish
aut · rank #40,662 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,662
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH atrofia
Nearest frequency peer: atrofia (-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 “aut”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- atestigua
atestigua
59,342 corpus weight
- atrevieron
atrevieron
59,341 corpus weight
- atrofia
atrofia
59,340 corpus weight
- aut
aut
59,339 corpus weight
- author
author
59,338 corpus weight
- avisé
avisé
59,337 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “aut” 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 | aut |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | /ˈawt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “aut”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aut is neighbouring look-alikes ("ay", "av", …), not just typos; it is aconjunction pronounced /ˈawt/. Frequency #40,662 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "O".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for aut, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is aut, spelled A-U-T.
Definition
- 1O
Synonyms
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).