guestvsveraWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: guest is a noun, vera is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#38,160
“guest” frequency rank
#8,302
“vera” frequency rank
46462
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature guest vera
Definition Gast wahr, regelrecht

Letter map: guest vs vera

Shared letters muted; letters that set guest and vera apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. guest runs 5 letters (CVVCC) against vera's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
guest
4 ch
vera

Role in the sentence - guest and vera

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: guest is anoun and veraanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46462, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

guest is recorded at frequency rank #38,160, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. vera is at rank #8,302, tagged as anadj, 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 46462, this pair ranks #1,318,315 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of guest vs vera

Shared letters: e. Private to "guest": gstu. Private to "vera": arv.

"guest" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "vera" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • guestgeust · gguest · guesst · guestt · guset · ugest
  • veraevra · vear · verra · vrea · vvera

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "guest" for "vera" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "guest" is a noun and "vera" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "guest" or "vera" show up more?
"vera" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,302 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.

After this comparison

Pair "guest" vs "vera" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "guest" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "vera" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,318,315 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "guest" and "vera" 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 #1,318,315 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