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guidance

/ˈɡaɪdəns/noun

guidance is spelled G-U-I-D-A-N-C-E. The wrong spelling people search most is guidence: about 530 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 11 of all searches for the word. Guidance is a noun meaning “The act or process of guiding”. The plural of guidance is guidances.

How many letters and syllables are in guidance?

Letters8: G-U-I-D-A-N-C-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing21 times per million words; the 4,076th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, guidence, about 530 Bing searches a month (all of them)

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell guidance?

Guidance is spelled G-U-I-D-A-N-C-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for guidance in either form.

guidancethe right spelling5,200 searches a month
guidencee in place of a530 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is guidance?

Guidance appears 21 times per million words in written English, the 4,076th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce guidance?

  • /ˈɡaɪdəns/

Guidance has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-guidance.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of guidance

  • guidances plural
  • guidaunce

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does guidance mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The act or process of guiding.

  2. 2

    Advice or counselling on some topic.

    divine guidance

  3. 3

    Any process or system to control the path of a vehicle, missile etc.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Guidance in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchguidage (the act or process of guiding), conseils (advice), direction (system to control the path of a vehicle)
GermanAnleitung, Richtungsweisung, Handlungsempfehlung, Orientierungshilfe (the act or process of guiding), Rechtleitung (advice), Lenkung (system to control the path of a vehicle)
Portugueseorientação (the act or process of guiding), navegação (system to control the path of a vehicle)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does guidance come from?

From guide + -ance. Displaced native Old English lādtēowdōm.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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