aus
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,401
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
aus is aFrenchprep. It means: De (désigne la provenance). Pronounced \aʊ̯s\. Often confused with av and az.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Prep |
| IPA | \aʊ̯s\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aus is 3 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aʊ̯s\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,401 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for aus in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "av", "az", "aw", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is aus, spelled A-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De (désigne la provenance).
- 2De, désigne la source ou l’origin de quelque chose.
- 3Hors de, désigne un mouvement de l'intérieur vers l’extérieur.
- 4De, désigne le matériau dont quelque chose est faite.
- 5De, désigne un mouvement d'éloignement par rapport à la position actuelle, ou un changement actif par rapport à la situation actuelle.
- 6Par, du, par cause de.
- 7De, désigne l’état original d’une transformation active.
- 8De, désigne l’état original d’une évolution.
- 9De, désigne l’endroit d’où quelque chose a été écartée ou éliminée.
- 10En, désigne le sujet scolaire.
- 11Particule séparable de nombreux verbes, voir aus-.
- 12von ... aus: À l'initiative de.
- 13ein und aus gehen, aus und ein gehen: Se rendre souvent et de manière familiale (chez quelqu'un).
Frequency rank: #18,401 in French
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