Which to use
“guest” is a noun and “gut” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #38,160
- “guest” frequency rank
- #89
- “gut” frequency rank
- 38249
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | guest | gut |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Gast | vom Menschen her positiv bewertet, empfunden, gefühlt und dergleichen |
Letter map: guest vs gut
Shared letters muted; letters that set guest and gut apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. guest runs 5 letters (CVVCC) against gut's 3 (CVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for guest / gut
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: guest is anoun and gutanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38249, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
guest is recorded at frequency rank #38,160, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. gut is at rank #89, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ɡuːt].
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 38249, this pair ranks #1,568,883 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of guest vs gut
Shared letters: gtu. Private to "guest": es. Private to "gut": -.
"guest" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC · "gut" · 3 letters · shape CVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- guest ← geust · gguest · guesst · guestt · guset · ugest
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "guest" and "gut" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "guest" or "gut"?
After this comparison
You've compared "guest" and "gut". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "guest" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "gut" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,568,883 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "guest" and "gut" 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 #1,568,883 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.