guidon
\ɡi.dɔ̃\
The verdict
“guidon” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #21,959 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #21,959
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petit drapeau d’une compagnie militaire.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guidon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡi.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “guidon” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for guidon is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡi.dɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,959 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for guidon, with forms such as "gguidon", "giudon", and "gudion". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Guyon", "Guizot", "Guillon", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is guidon, spelled G-U-I-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1Petit drapeau d’une compagnie militaire.
- 2Celui qui portait ce drapeau.
- 3Petit drapeau qui sert pour l’alignement dans les manœuvres de l’infanterie.
- 4Banderole plus courte et plus large que la flamme, et fendue à son extrémité, qui sert ordinairement à faire des signaux.
- 5Barre d’acier creux placée en haut de la fourche qui sert à orienter la roue avant et par là même à contrôler la trajectoire d'un véhicule.
- 6Titularisation d’un pilote dans une écurie de sport motocycliste.
- 7Marque que l’on fait au bout d’une ligne, pour indiquer l’endroit où doit être placée la note qui commence la ligne suivante.
- 8Pièce fixée à l’extrémité du canon d'une arme à feu et qui sert à viser.
- 9Signal d'arrêt pour le conducteur d'un train.
- 10Meuble représentant dans les armoiries un drapeau de forme plus ou moins allongée à l’extrémité se divisant en deux pointes ondoyantes ou non. Il est généralement attaché à une hampe placée à dextre et est dit emmanché quand la hampe est d’un autre émail. À rapprocher de bannière, étendard, gonfanon, oriflamme, pavillon et pennon.
- 11Trait peint en limite de parcelle afin de la matérialiser.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gguidon,giudon,gudion,guiddon,guidno,guidonn,guiodn,ugidon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guidon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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Using “guidon”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-U-I-D-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡi.dɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Guyon” - see the side-by-side comparison. guidon vs Guyon
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.