guinée

\ɡi.ne\

/\ɡi.ne\/ noun

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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
2,617
“G” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.

Corpus desk

Index FR-guinee · guinée · French

guinée · rank #5,564 · 8 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,564
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH grecs

Nearest frequency peer: grecs (-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 « guinée »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « guinée » 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).

guinée vs guise
67% similar
guinée vs guinéen
86% similar
guinée vs guinéens
75% similar

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

Key facts for guinée
PropertyValue
Headwordguinée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡi.ne\
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,564
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « guinée »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).guinéese 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 « grecs » (#5,563), « génétique » (#5,565), « globe » (#5,562). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « guinée » est au #5,564. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around guinée (IPA \ɡi.ne\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,564 among 2,617 “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

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Sorte 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.
  3. 3
    Cuir préparé, buffle.
  4. 4
    Herbe de Guinée ou Megathyrsus maximus.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Si vous voulez me dire où est présentement le Quaker, je vous compterai cent guinées ;….
  2. Si tu réussis à faire venir Nazira dans mon magasin, seule, sans sa mère, je te donnerai une guinée de récompense.

This word in other languages

guinea(English)Guinee(Deutsch)

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.

gguinée1giunée2guinee1guineé2guinnée1guiéne2guniée2uginée2
Edit distance from "guinée"

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 "guinée"?
"guinée" is spelled G-U-I-N-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡi.ne\.
What does "guinée" mean?
As a noun, "guinée" means: 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.
What words are commonly confused with "guinée"?
"guinée" is commonly confused with "guise", "guinéen", "guinéens". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "guinée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guinée" is \ɡi.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "guinée" come from?
"guinée" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

délais#5,551débile#5,550coffre#5,534quarts#5,599

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

grecs8 variantsmythe8 variantspayés8 variantspères8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list