Which to use
“guaranteed” is an adjective and “guarantees” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #4,384
- “guaranteed” frequency rank
- #9,187
- “guarantees” frequency rank
- 13571
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | guaranteed | guarantees |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Made certain; promised. | plural of guarantee |
Letter map: guaranteed vs guarantees
Shared letters muted; letters that set guaranteed and guarantees apart highlighted. Shared run: 9.
Part-of-speech tell for guaranteed / guarantees
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: guaranteed is anadjective and guaranteesanoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - d in “guaranteed” becomes s in “guarantees”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13571, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
guaranteed is recorded at frequency rank #4,384, classified as anadj. guarantees is at rank #9,187, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˌɡɛɹənˈtiz/.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 13571, this pair ranks #475,007 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of guaranteed vs guarantees
Shared letters: aegnrtu. Private to "guaranteed": d. Private to "guarantees": s.
"guaranteed" · 10 letters · shape CVVCVCCVVC · "guarantees" · 10 letters · shape CVVCVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- guaranteed ← gauranteed · gguaranteed · guaarnteed · guaraneted · guarannteed · guaranted · guarantede · guaranteedd
- guarantees ← gaurantees · gguarantees · guaarntees · guaranetes · guaranntees · guaranteess · guarantes · guarantese
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "guaranteed" and "guarantees" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "guaranteed" or "guarantees"?
After this comparison
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "guaranteed" and "guarantees".
- Full dictionary entry for "guaranteed" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "guarantees" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #475,007 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "guaranteed" and "guarantees" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "guarantee vs guarantees". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #475,007 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.