guide
[ɡid]
The verdict
“guide” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,733. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,733
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Führer, Leitfaden, Ratgeber
Corpus desk
Index DE-guide · guide · German
guide · rank #9,733 · 6 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,733
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH hats
Nearest frequency peer: hats (+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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „guide“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- gewaschen
gewaschen
90,271 corpus weight
- gewünschte
gewünschte
90,270 corpus weight
- guide
guide
90,268 corpus weight
- hats
hats
90,267 corpus weight
- Heilbronn
Heilbronn
90,266 corpus weight
- Himmels
Himmels
90,265 corpus weight
What this shows „guide“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | guide |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡid] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „guide“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around guide (IPA [ɡid]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,733 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Führer, Leitfaden, Ratgeber".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for guide, with forms such as "gguide", "giude", and "gudie". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "gute", "Guido", "Gurke", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is guide, spelled G-U-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Führer, Leitfaden, Ratgeber
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gguide
- giude
- gudie
- guidde
- guied
- ugide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guide - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "guide", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).