guild
/ɡɪld/
"guild" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“guild” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #7,923. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,923
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages, established to oversee and protect their specific commercial interest...
Corpus desk
Index EN-guild · guild · English
guild · rank #7,923 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,923
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH halt
Nearest frequency peer: halt (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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 “guild”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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92,081 corpus weight
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92,080 corpus weight
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guild
92,078 corpus weight
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halt
92,077 corpus weight
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92,076 corpus weight
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Henderson
92,075 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “guild” sits against the nearest ranked English 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 | guild |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɪld/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “guild” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around guild (IPA /ɡɪld/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,923 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for guild, with forms such as "gguild", "giuld", and "guidl". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gul", "gulf", "gull", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English gilde, from Old Norse gildi (“payment, guild”). Related to geld, yield, yauld. The correct English form is guild, spelled G-U-I-L-D.
Definition
- 1A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages, established to oversee and protect their specific commercial interests and to provide mutual aid.
- 2A corporation.
- 3A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits.
- 4An organized group of players who regularly play together in a multiplayer game.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how guild appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The swinging of its censers, the silence of its members / Oh, the Guild of Mute Assassins
Etymology
From Middle English gilde, from Old Norse gildi (“payment, guild”). Related to geld, yield, yauld.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gguild
- giuld
- guidl
- guildd
- guilld
- gulid
- ugild
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guild - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "guild", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "guild" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "gul". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #7,923 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "G" letter cohort. G–Z browse
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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.