Which to use
“gesät” is a verb and “guest” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #34,127
- “gesät” frequency rank
- #38,160
- “guest” frequency rank
- 72287
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | gesät | guest |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Partizip Perfekt des Verbs säen | Gast |
Letter map: gesät vs guest
Shared letters muted; letters that set gesät and guest apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. gesät (CVCVC) and guest (CVVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Part-of-speech tell for gesät / guest
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: gesät is averb and guestanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72287, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
gesät is recorded at frequency rank #34,127, classified as averb, pronounced [ɡəˈzɛːt]. guest is at rank #38,160, tagged as anoun, pronounced […].
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 72287, this pair ranks #392,535 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of gesät vs guest
Shared letters: egst. Private to "gesät": ä. Private to "guest": u.
"gesät" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "guest" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- guest ← geust · gguest · guesst · guestt · guset · ugest
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "gesät" and "guest" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "gesät" or "guest"?
Useful next steps
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "gesät" and "guest".
- Full dictionary entry for "gesät" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "guest" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #392,535 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "gesät" and "guest" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "guest vs puzzles". 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 #392,535 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.