Which to use
“guest” is a noun and “gutes” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #38,160
- “guest” frequency rank
- #793
- “gutes” frequency rank
- 38953
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | guest | gutes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Gast | Nominativ Singular Neutrum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs gut |
Letter map: guest vs gutes
Shared letters muted; letters that set guest and gutes apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. guest (CVVCC) and gutes (CVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Role in the sentence - guest and gutes
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: guest is anoun and gutesanadjective. On the page they are an anagram pair: the same letters reordered. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38953, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
guest is recorded at frequency rank #38,160, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. gutes is at rank #793, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ˈɡuːtəs].
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 38953, this pair ranks #1,550,178 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of guest vs gutes
Shared letters: egstu. Private to "guest": -. Private to "gutes": -.
"guest" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC · "gutes" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
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- Full dictionary entry for "guest" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "gutes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,550,178 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "guest" and "gutes" 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 #1,550,178 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.