Which to use
“guide” and “guides” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #9,733
- “guide” frequency rank
- #39,409
- “guides” frequency rank
- 49142
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | guide | guides |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Führer, Leitfaden, Ratgeber | Plural des Substantivs guide |
Letter map: guide vs guides
Shared letters muted; letters that set guide and guides apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.
Corpus notes: guide and guides
guide and guides are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “guide” sits inside “guides”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49142, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
guide is recorded at frequency rank #9,733, classified as anoun, pronounced [ɡid]. guides is at rank #39,409, 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 49142, this pair ranks #1,222,556 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of guide vs guides
Shared letters: degiu. Private to "guide": -. Private to "guides": s.
"guide" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV · "guides" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "guide" and "guides" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary German text, does "guide" or "guides" show up more?
Useful next steps
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "guide" and "guides".
- Full dictionary entry for "guide" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "guides" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,222,556 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "guide" and "guides" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "guides 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 #1,222,556 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.