gucktvsguestTell them apart

Quick tell: guckt is a verb, guest is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“guckt” is a verb and “guest” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#6,665
“guckt” frequency rank
#38,160
“guest” frequency rank
44825
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature guckt guest
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs gucken Gast

Letter map: guckt vs guest

Shared letters muted; letters that set guckt and guest apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. guckt (CVCCC) and guest (CVVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
guckt
5 ch
guest

Role in the sentence - guckt and guest

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: guckt is averb and guestanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44825, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

guckt is recorded at frequency rank #6,665, classified as averb, pronounced [ɡʊkt]. 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 44825, this pair ranks #1,373,518 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of guckt vs guest

Shared letters: gtu. Private to "guckt": ck. Private to "guest": es.

"guckt" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC  ·  "guest" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • guckt ← gcukt · gguckt · gucckt · guckkt · gucktt · guctk · gukct · ugckt
  • guest ← geust · gguest · guesst · guestt · guset · ugest

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "guckt" for "guest" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "guckt" is a verb and "guest" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "guckt" or "guest" show up more?
"guckt" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,665 in our German list, against #38,160 for "guest". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "guckt" and "guest". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "guckt" 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 #1,373,518 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "guckt" 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 #1,373,518 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list