guidesvsTOConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#39,409
“guides” frequency rank
#589
“TO” frequency rank
39998
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature guides TO
Definition Plural des Substantivs guide KFZ-Kennzeichen für Torino (Turin)

Letter map: guides vs TO

Shared letters muted; letters that set guides and TO apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

6 ch
guides
2 ch
TO

Role in the sentence - guides and TO

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: guides is anoun and TOanabbrev. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39998, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

guides is recorded at frequency rank #39,409, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. TO is at rank #589, 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 39998, this pair ranks #1,520,918 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of guides vs TO

Shared letters: none. Private to "guides": degisu. Private to "TO": ot.

"guides" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC  ·  "TO" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "guides" and "TO" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "guides" is a noun and "TO" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "guides" vs "TO" - which ranks higher?
"TO" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #589 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.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "guides" and "TO".

  • Full dictionary entry for "guides" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "TO" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,520,918 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "guides" and "TO" 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 #1,520,918 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