Guido

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The verdict

“Guido” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,882. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,882
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin, correspondant à Guy.

Corpus desk

Index FR-guido · Guido · French

Guido · rank #23,882 · 6 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,882
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH gueux

Nearest frequency peer: gueux (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Guido »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Guido » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Guido vs guise
40% similar
Guido vs guilde
50% similar
Guido vs guidon
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Guido
PropertyValue
HeadwordGuido
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#23,882
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Guido »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Guidose place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « gueux » (#23,881), « habilité » (#23,883), « griefs » (#23,880). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « Guido » est au #23,882. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around Guido, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #23,882 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin, correspondant à Guy.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Guido, with forms such as "gguido", "giudo", and "gudio". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "guise", "guilde", "guidon", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Guido, spelled G-U-I-D-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom masculin, correspondant à Guy.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Guido appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il s’appelait Guido. Il vivait seul. Il me parlait comme à une personne, il me racontait sa vie, il n’était pas dans son pays ici, dans son pays il avait une maison avec une vigne, et comme moi beaucoup de frères et sœurs, des sœurs très belles qui se mariaient une par une.
  2. Tu as bien noté l'adresse où on doit retrouver l'autre Pink Floyd ? demanda Guido entre deux soupirs.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • gguido
  • giudo
  • gudio
  • guiddo
  • guiod
  • ugido

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Guido - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

gguido1giudo2gudio2guiddo1guiod2ugido2
Edit distance from "Guido"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Guido"?
"Guido" is spelled G-U-I-D-O.
What does "Guido" mean?
As a proper noun, "Guido" means: Prénom masculin, correspondant à Guy.
What words are commonly confused with "Guido"?
"Guido" is commonly confused with "guise", "guilde", "guidon". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Guido" come from?
"Guido" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Guido", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

gueux#23,881furie#23,873imams#23,892kader#23,918

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

feng6 variantsJoëlle6 variantskris6 variantsmaple6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list