guises
/ˈɡaɪzɪz/
"guises" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“guises” is uncommon English (frequency #52,358 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,358
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of guise
Corpus desk
Index EN-guises · guises · English
guises · rank #52,358 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,358
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gruelling
Nearest frequency peer: gruelling (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “guises”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- grater
grater
47,646 corpus weight
- Grogan
Grogan
47,645 corpus weight
- gruelling
gruelling
47,644 corpus weight
- guises
guises
47,643 corpus weight
- gushed
gushed
47,642 corpus weight
- Haddon
Haddon
47,640 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “guises” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guises |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡaɪzɪz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “guises” in English
Rare enough to double-check
guises is uncommon English at frequency #52,358 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡaɪzɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of guise".
Zero misspellings are on record for guises in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is guises, spelled G-U-I-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of guise
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).