guitar

\ɡɪ.ˈtɑː(ɹ)\

/\ɡɪ.ˈtɑː(ɹ)\/ noun

The verdict

“guitar” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,072. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#35,072
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Guitare.

Corpus desk

Index FR-guitar · guitar · French

guitar · rank #35,072 · 8 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #35,072
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH groupuscules

Nearest frequency peer: groupuscules (-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 « guitar »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « guitar » 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).

guitar vs Gustav
50% similar
guitar vs Gunnar
50% similar
guitar vs guitare
86% similar

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

Key facts for guitar
PropertyValue
Headwordguitar
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡɪ.ˈtɑː(ɹ)\
Letters6
Frequency rank#35,072
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « guitar »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « groupuscules » (#35,071), « Guyon » (#35,073), « grotesques » (#35,070). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « guitar » est au #35,072. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around guitar (IPA \ɡɪ.ˈtɑː(ɹ)\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,072 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Guitare.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for guitar, with forms such as "gguitar", "giutar", and "guiatr". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Gustav", "Gunnar", "guitare", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is guitar, spelled G-U-I-T-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Guitare.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • gguitar
  • giutar
  • guiatr
  • guitarr
  • guitra
  • guittar
  • gutiar
  • ugitar

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

gguitar1giutar2guiatr2guitarr1guitra2guittar1gutiar2ugitar2
Edit distance from "guitar"

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 "guitar"?
"guitar" is spelled G-U-I-T-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡɪ.ˈtɑː(ɹ)\.
What does "guitar" mean?
As a noun, "guitar" means: Guitare.
What words are commonly confused with "guitar"?
"guitar" is commonly confused with "Gustav", "Gunnar", "guitare". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "guitar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guitar" is \ɡɪ.ˈtɑː(ɹ)\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "guitar" come from?
"guitar" 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 "guitar", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

Similar misspelling depth

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list