guide

/[ɡid]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,733

in German word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

17

similar word pairs

guide is aGermannoun. It means: Führer, Leitfaden, Ratgeber Pronounced [ɡid]. It ranks #9,733 in German word frequency. Often confused with gute and Guido.

Key facts for guide
PropertyValue
Headwordguide
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ɡid]
Letters5
Frequency rank#9,733
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of guide in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for guide is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡid]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,733 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Führer, Leitfaden, Ratgeber".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for guide, with forms such as "gguide", "giude", and "gudie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "gute", "Guido", "Gurke", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is guide, spelled G-U-I-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Führer, Leitfaden, Ratgeber

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: gguide,giude,gudie,guidde,guied,ugide

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for guide

Misspelling Variants of "guide"

gguide6giude5gudie5guidde6guied5ugide5
Misspelling Variants of "guide"

Frequency rank: #9,733 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "guide"?
"guide" is spelled G-U-I-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ɡid].
What does "guide" mean?
As a noun, "guide" means: Führer, Leitfaden, Ratgeber
What words are commonly confused with "guide"?
"guide" is commonly confused with "gute", "Guido", "Gurke". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "guide"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guide" is [ɡid]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "guide" come from?
"guide" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter G in our German index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.