guiadavsguiaráTell them apart

Quick tell: guiada is a participle, guiará is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“guiada” is a participle and “guiará” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#25,297
“guiada” frequency rank
#37,642
“guiará” frequency rank
62939
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature guiada guiará
Definition Forma del femenino de guiado, participio de guiar o de guiarse. Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del futuro de indicativo de guiar o de guiarse.

Where the eye mixes guiada and guiará

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

6 ch
guiada
6 ch
guiará

Why the eye confuses guiada with guiará

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: guiada is [ˈgjað̞a] while guiará is [gjaˈɾa]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (participle vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62939, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

guiada is recorded at frequency rank #25,297, classified as aparticiple, pronounced [ˈgjað̞a]. guiará is at rank #37,642, tagged as averb, pronounced [gjaˈɾa].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 62939, this pair ranks #50,357 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of guiada vs guiará

Shared letters: agiu. Private to "guiada": d. Private to "guiará": .

"guiada" · 6 letters · shape CVVVCV  ·  "guiará" · 6 letters · shape CVVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • guiadagguiada · giuada · guaida · guiaad · guiadda · guidaa · ugiada

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "guiada" and "guiará" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "guiada" is a participle and "guiará" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "guiada" or "guiará" show up more?
"guiada" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,297 in our Spanish list, against #37,642 for "guiará". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "guiada" and "guiará" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "guiada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "guiará" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #50,357 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "guiada" and "guiará" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "gara vs guiará". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #50,357 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list