GUSvsguteConfusable pair

Quick tell: GUS is a noun, gute is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“GUS” is a noun and “gute” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#24,375
“GUS” frequency rank
#226
“gute” frequency rank
24601
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature GUS gute
Definition Glucuronidase, ein Glykosid Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs gut

Letter map: GUS vs gute

Shared letters muted; letters that set GUS and gute apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

3 ch
GUS
4 ch
gute

Part-of-speech tell for GUS / gute

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: GUS is anoun and guteanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24601, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

GUS is recorded at frequency rank #24,375, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. gute is at rank #226, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ˈɡuːtə].

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 24601, this pair ranks #1,845,320 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of GUS vs gute

Shared letters: gu. Private to "GUS": s. Private to "gute": et.

"GUS" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "gute" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • guteggute · gtue · guet · gutte · ugte

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "GUS" for "gute" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "GUS" is a noun and "gute" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "GUS" or "gute" show up more?
"gute" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #226 in our German list, against #24,375 for "GUS". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "GUS" and "gute". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "GUS" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "gute" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,845,320 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "GUS" and "gute" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "GUS 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 #1,845,320 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