guidesvsminWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: guides is a noun, min is an abbrev, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“guides” is a noun and “min” is an abbrev - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#39,409
“guides” frequency rank
#1,562
“min” frequency rank
40971
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature guides min
Definition Plural des Substantivs guide Minute

Letter map: guides vs min

Shared letters muted; letters that set guides and min apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

6 ch
guides
3 ch
min

Part-of-speech tell for guides / min

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: guides is anoun and minanabbrev. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40971, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

guides is recorded at frequency rank #39,409, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. min is at rank #1,562, tagged as anabbrev, 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 40971, this pair ranks #1,493,012 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of guides vs min

Shared letters: i. Private to "guides": degsu. Private to "min": mn.

"guides" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC  ·  "min" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • guidesgguides · giudes · gudies · guiddes · guidess · guidse · guieds · ugides

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "guides" and "min" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "guides" is a noun and "min" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "guides" vs "min" - which ranks higher?
"min" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,562 in our German list, against #39,409 for "guides". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "guides" vs "min" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "guides" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "min" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,493,012 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "guides" and "min" 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 #1,493,012 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