guy
[ɡaɪ]
The verdict
“guy” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,073) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,073
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Mann
Corpus desk
Index DE-guy · guy · German
guy · rank #8,073 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,073
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH heftigen
Nearest frequency peer: heftigen (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “guy”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- glücklicher
glücklicher
91,931 corpus weight
- Grill
Grill
91,930 corpus weight
- guy
guy
91,928 corpus weight
- heftigen
heftigen
91,927 corpus weight
- heilig
heilig
91,926 corpus weight
- Heimspiel
Heimspiel
91,925 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “guy” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | guy |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡaɪ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “guy” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for guy is neighbouring look-alikes ("GV", "gz", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɡaɪ]. Frequency #8,073 among 5,117 “G” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for guy in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GV", "gz", "guys", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is guy, spelled G-U-Y.
Definition
- 1der Mann
- 2die Männer oder Frauen
- 3britisch: die mit Lumpen bekleidete Puppe zum Verbrennen
- 4die Leine oder Schnur zum Spannen und Halten
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how guy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A new guy started at the office today.
Antonyms
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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- "guy" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "GV". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #8,073 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.