guitar
gui·tar/ɡɪˈtɑɹ/noun, verb
guitar is spelled G-U-I-T-A-R, 2 syllables: gui·tar. The wrong spelling people search most is gitar: about 330 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 97 of all searches for the word. Guitar is a noun meaning “A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played…”. The plural of guitar is guitars.
How many letters and syllables are in guitar?
| Letters | 6: G-U-I-T-A-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: gui·tar |
| In writing | 30 times per million words; the 3,114th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, gitar, about 330 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell guitar?
Guitar is spelled G-U-I-T-A-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 97 of the searches for guitar in either form.
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 guitar?
Guitar appears 30 times per million words in written English, the 3,114th 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 guitar?
- UK /ɡɪˈtɑː/
- US /ɡɪˈtɑɹ/
- /ˈɡɪt.ɑɹ/
Guitar has 2 syllables, split gui·tar in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-guitar.ogg, En-us-guitar.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with guitar?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as guitar from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of guitar
- guitars plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- gittar
- guitaring participle, present
- guitared participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does guitar mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
Learning to strum the guitar rhythmically is essential.
- 2
Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
verb
- 1
informalTo play the guitar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate guitar?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of guitar: Gt.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Guitar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense musical instrument:
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 guitar come from?
From Spanish guitarra, from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of cithara, cither, and zither, but not related to sitar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).