guise

Name: guise, German Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

[ɡiz]

/[ɡiz]/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“guise” is uncommon German (frequency #68,309 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#68,309
frequency rank, German: 5,117
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Weise

Corpus desk

Index DE-guise · guise · German

guise · rank #68,309 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-RARE #68,309
LEN-MID 5 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-0 0 variants
BOOK-DENSE 5,117
PHOTO-FINISH Gruppenvergew…

Nearest frequency peer: Gruppenvergewaltigung (-2 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.

Grillplatz

31,699
Gruppenverg…

31,694
guise

31,692
Halfpipe

31,689
handfestes

31,686
Hartford

31,685

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

Key facts for guise
Property	Value
Headword	guise
Language	German
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	[ɡiz]
Letters	5
Frequency rank	#68,309
Misspellings tracked	0
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „guise“ im Deutschen

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

#68,309

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Gruppenvergewaltigung“ (#68,307), „Halfpipe“ (#68,312), „handfestes“ (#68,315). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „guise“ bei #68,309. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

guise is uncommon German at frequency #68,309 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡiz]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Weise".

No generated misspelling entries exist for guise in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is guise, spelled G-U-I-S-E.

Definition

1
Weise

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 "guise"?

"guise" is spelled G-U-I-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ɡiz].

What does "guise" mean?

As a noun, "guise" means: Weise

How do you pronounce "guise"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guise" is [ɡiz]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "guise" come from?

"guise" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

grain#68,298 Hendl#68,326 Gitta#68,289 Hirne#68,334