guidance

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The verdict

“guidance” is uncommon German (frequency #90,366 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,366
frequency rank, German
5,117
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Führung, Leitung, Anleitung

Corpus desk

Index DE-guidance · guidance · German

guidance · rank #90,366 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,366
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,117
  • PHOTO-FINISH Guerillas

Nearest frequency peer: Guerillas (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „guidance“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „guidance“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for guidance
PropertyValue
Headwordguidance
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters8
Frequency rank#90,366
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „guidance“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.guidancefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Guerillas“ (#90,365), „Gundel“ (#90,367), „Grönlands“ (#90,364). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „guidance“ bei #90,366. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

guidance is uncommon German at frequency #90,366 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Führung, Leitung, Anleitung".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for guidance, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is guidance, spelled G-U-I-D-A-N-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Führung, Leitung, Anleitung

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how guidance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The guidance by our new boss differs from our old one.

This word in other languages

direction(Français)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "guidance"?
"guidance" is spelled G-U-I-D-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "guidance" mean?
As a noun, "guidance" means: Führung, Leitung, Anleitung
How do you pronounce "guidance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guidance" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "guidance" come from?
"guidance" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "guidance", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Grätsche#90,362haariger#90,375Halbgott#90,381graduell#90,349

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list