guildvsLincolnTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#38,788
“guild” frequency rank
#12,121
“Lincoln” frequency rank
50909
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature guild Lincoln
Definition eine Gruppe von Personen, die die gleichen Interessen verfolgen; Gilde, Zunft Hauptstadt von Nebraska, USA

Letter map: guild vs Lincoln

Shared letters muted; letters that set guild and Lincoln apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. guild runs 5 letters (CVVCC) against Lincoln's 7 (CVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
guild
7 ch
Lincoln

Part-of-speech tell for guild / Lincoln

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: guild is anoun and Lincolnaname. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50909, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

guild is recorded at frequency rank #38,788, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. Lincoln is at rank #12,121, tagged as aname, 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 50909, this pair ranks #1,155,727 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of guild vs Lincoln

Shared letters: il. Private to "guild": dgu. Private to "Lincoln": cno.

"guild" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "Lincoln" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • guild ← gguild · giuld · guidl · guildd · guilld · gulid · ugild
  • Lincoln ← ilncoln · licnoln · linccoln · linclon · lincolln · lincolnn · linconl · linncoln

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "guild" and "Lincoln" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "guild" is a noun and "Lincoln" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "guild" or "Lincoln" show up more?
"Lincoln" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,121 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.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "guild" and "Lincoln".

  • Full dictionary entry for "guild" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Lincoln" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,155,727 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "guild" and "Lincoln" 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 #1,155,727 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