guinée
\ɡi.ne\
The verdict
“guinée” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,564. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,564
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pièce de monnaie britannique en or frappée de 1663 à 1813, valant entre 20 et 30 shillings (1-1,5 livre) selon le cours de l’or jusqu’en 1717 et 21 shillings (1,05 livre) depuis.
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 | guinée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡi.ne\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “guinée” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around guinée (IPA \ɡi.ne\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,564 among 194,371 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for guinée, with forms such as "gguinée", "giunée", and "guinee". 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, "guise", "guinéen", "guinéens", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 guinée, spelled G-U-I-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Pièce de monnaie britannique en or frappée de 1663 à 1813, valant entre 20 et 30 shillings (1-1,5 livre) selon le cours de l’or jusqu’en 1717 et 21 shillings (1,05 livre) depuis.
- 2Sorte de toile, de mousseline, teinté en bleu à l’aide d’indigo, traditionnellement fabriquée à Pondichéry et utilisée au XIXᵉ siècle comme monnaie de troc en Afrique de l’ouest.
- 3Cuir préparé, buffle.
- 4Herbe de Guinée ou Megathyrsus maximus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gguinée,giunée,guinee,guineé,guinnée,guiéne,guniée,uginée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guinée - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “guinée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-U-I-N-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡi.ne\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “guise” - see the side-by-side comparison. guinée vs guise
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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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.