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“guiado” and “guiará” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#17,443
“guiado” frequency rank
#37,642
“guiará” frequency rank
55085
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature guiado guiará
Definition 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 guiado and guiará

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

6 ch
guiado
6 ch
guiará

Visual trap between guiado and guiará

A purely visual mix-up. guiado ([ˈgjað̞o]) and guiará ([gjaˈɾa]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55085, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

guiado is recorded at frequency rank #17,443, classified as averb, pronounced [ˈgjað̞o]. 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 55085, this pair ranks #80,455 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of guiado vs guiará

Shared letters: agiu. Private to "guiado": do. Private to "guiará": .

"guiado" · 6 letters · shape CVVVCV  ·  "guiará" · 6 letters · shape CVVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • guiadogguiado · giuado · guaido · guiaddo · guiaod · guidao · ugiado

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "guiado" for "guiará" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([ˈgjað̞o] versus [gjaˈɾa]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "guiado" vs "guiará" - which ranks higher?
"guiado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,443 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.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "guiado" 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 #80,455 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "guiado" 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 #80,455 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