guest vs gutes, What's the Difference?

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

Where the spellings diverge

Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set guest and gutes apart are highlighted. They share 4 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.

5 ch

guest

5 ch

gutes

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

guest ← geust · gguest · guesst · guestt · guset · ugest
gutes ← ggutes · gtues · guets · gutess · gutse · guttes · ugtes

Frequency comparison

guest#38,160

gutes#793

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "guest" and "gutes" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "guest" is a noun and "gutes" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "guest" or "gutes"?

"gutes" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #793 in our German list, against #38,160 for "guest". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Remembering guest vs gutes

The fastest way to pick the right one every time.

Check the role first: if you need a noun, it's “guest”; for an adjective, it's “gutes”.
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