guy
\ˈɡaɪ\
The verdict
“guy” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,263) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,263
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mec, gars, type.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guy · guy · French
guy · rank #3,263 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,263
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH fruit
Nearest frequency peer: fruit (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « guy »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- foyer
foyer
96,741 corpus weight
- fruit
fruit
96,739 corpus weight
- guy
guy
96,738 corpus weight
- horrible
horrible
96,737 corpus weight
- humeur
humeur
96,736 corpus weight
- immigration
immigration
96,735 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « guy » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | guy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɡaɪ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,263 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « guy »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for guy is neighbouring look-alikes ("GW", "gx", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈɡaɪ\. Frequency #3,263 among 2,617 “G” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for guy, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GW", "gx", "gym", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is guy, spelled G-U-Y.
Definition
- 1Mec, gars, type.
- 2Appareil, machine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A new guy started at the office today.
This guy, here, controls the current, and this guy, here, measures the voltage.
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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