guildvslegoTell them apart

Quick tell: guild is a noun, lego is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“guild” is a noun and “lego” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#38,788
“guild” frequency rank
#11,085
“lego” frequency rank
49873
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature guild lego
Definition eine Gruppe von Personen, die die gleichen Interessen verfolgen; Gilde, Zunft 1. Person Singular Präsens Aktiv des Verbs legare

Letter map: guild vs lego

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

5 ch
guild
4 ch
lego

Grammar separator: guild vs lego

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: guild is anoun and legoaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49873, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

guild is recorded at frequency rank #38,788, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. lego is at rank #11,085, tagged as averb, 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 49873, this pair ranks #1,195,153 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of guild vs lego

Shared letters: gl. Private to "guild": diu. Private to "lego": eo.

"guild" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "lego" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • guild ← gguild · giuld · guidl · guildd · guilld · gulid · ugild
  • lego ← elgo · leggo · leog · lgeo · llego

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "guild" and "lego" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "guild" is a noun and "lego" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "guild" vs "lego" - which ranks higher?
"lego" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,085 in our German list, against #38,788 for "guild". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "guild" and "lego". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "guild" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "lego" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,195,153 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "guild" and "lego" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "guild 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 #1,195,153 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