guilde

/\ɡild\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#12,791

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

guilde is aFrenchnoun. It means: Au Moyen Âge en Europe, corporation de personnes, en général des artisans, des marchands ou des artistes, partageant et promouvant des intérêts communs. Pronounced \ɡild\. Often confused with guise and guinée.

Key facts for guilde
PropertyValue
Headwordguilde
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡild\
Letters6
Frequency rank#12,791
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of guilde in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for guilde is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡild\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,791 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for guilde, with forms such as "gguilde", "giulde", and "guidle". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "guise", "guinée", "Guilhem", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is guilde, spelled G-U-I-L-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Au Moyen Âge en Europe, corporation de personnes, en général des artisans, des marchands ou des artistes, partageant et promouvant des intérêts communs.
  2. 2
    Association privée présentant des avantages particuliers à ses membres ou visant à promouvoir un objectif particulier.
  3. 3
    Communauté de joueurs, notamment pour les jeux de rôle en ligne massivement multijoueurs.
  4. 4
    Ensemble d’espèces appartenant à un même groupe taxonomique ou fonctionnel qui exploitent une ressource commune de la même manière en même temps.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: gguilde,giulde,guidle,guildde,guiled,guillde,gulide,ugilde

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for guilde

Misspelling Variants of "guilde"

gguilde7giulde6guidle6guildde7guiled6guillde7gulide6ugilde6
Misspelling Variants of "guilde"

Frequency rank: #12,791 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "guilde"?
"guilde" is spelled G-U-I-L-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡild\.
What does "guilde" mean?
As a noun, "guilde" means: Au Moyen Âge en Europe, corporation de personnes, en général des artisans, des marchands ou des artistes, partageant et promouvant des intérêts communs.
What words are commonly confused with "guilde"?
"guilde" is commonly confused with "guise", "guinée", "Guilhem". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "guilde"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guilde" is \ɡild\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "guilde" come from?
"guilde" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.