gui
[ɡi]
The verdict
“gui” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,579) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,579
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mistel
Corpus desk
Index DE-gui · gui · German
gui · rank #32,579 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,579
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH GV
Nearest frequency peer: GV (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „gui“
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grundlegendes
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Grundprinzipien
67,425 corpus weight
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Grundvoraussetzung
67,424 corpus weight
- gui
gui
67,422 corpus weight
- GV
GV
67,421 corpus weight
- Gynäkologie
Gynäkologie
67,420 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „gui“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gui |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡi] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „gui“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gui is neighbouring look-alikes ("GV", "gz", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɡi]. Frequency #32,579 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Mistel".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gui, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GV", "gz", "gut", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is gui, spelled G-U-I.
Definition
- 1Mistel
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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