guilds
/ɡɪldz/
"guilds" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“guilds” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #26,102. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,102
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of guild
Corpus desk
Index EN-guilds · guilds · English
guilds · rank #26,102 · 9 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,102
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Guernsey
Nearest frequency peer: Guernsey (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “guilds”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Georgina
Georgina
73,903 corpus weight
- Gorbachev
Gorbachev
73,901 corpus weight
- Guernsey
Guernsey
73,900 corpus weight
- guilds
guilds
73,899 corpus weight
- gunning
gunning
73,898 corpus weight
- haiku
haiku
73,896 corpus weight
What this shows “guilds” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | guilds |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɪldz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “guilds”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around guilds (IPA /ɡɪldz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,102 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of guild".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for guilds, with forms such as "gguilds", "giulds", and "guidls". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "guilt", "gulls", "guile", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is guilds, spelled G-U-I-L-D-S.
Definition
- 1plural of guild
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gguilds
- giulds
- guidls
- guildds
- guildss
- guillds
- guilsd
- gulids
- ugilds
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guilds - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).