AurevsausWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Aure is a name, aus is a preposition, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Aure” is a name and “aus” is a preposition - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#48,927
“Aure” frequency rank
#18,401
“aus” frequency rank
67328
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Aure aus
Definition Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes. De (désigne la provenance).

Letter map: Aure vs aus

Shared letters muted; letters that set Aure and aus apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. Aure runs 4 letters (VVCV) against aus's 3 (VVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
Aure
3 ch
aus

Role in the sentence - Aure and aus

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Aure is aname and ausapreposition. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67328, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Aure is recorded at frequency rank #48,927, classified as aname. aus is at rank #18,401, tagged as aprep, pronounced \aʊ̯s\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 67328, this pair ranks #63,893 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Aure vs aus

Shared letters: au. Private to "Aure": er. Private to "aus": s.

"Aure" · 4 letters · shape VVCV  ·  "aus" · 3 letters · shape VVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Aure ← arue · auer · aurre · uare

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Aure" and "aus" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Aure" is a name and "aus" a preposition, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Aure" or "aus"?
"aus" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,401 in our French list, against #48,927 for "Aure". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "Aure" vs "aus" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Aure" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "aus" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #63,893 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Aure" and "aus" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aur vs Aure". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #63,893 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list