Which to use
“guide” is a noun and “guidées” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #2,577
- “guide” frequency rank
- #25,342
- “guidées” frequency rank
- 27919
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | guide | guidées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Celui, celle qui conduit une personne et, l’accompagnant, lui montre le chemin. | Participe passé féminin pluriel de guider. |
Where the eye mixes guide and guidées
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: guide vs guidées
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: guide is \ɡid\ while guidées is \ɡi.de\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 2 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27919, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
guide is recorded at frequency rank #2,577, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɡid\. guidées is at rank #25,342, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɡi.de\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 27919, this pair ranks #325,956 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of guide vs guidées
Shared letters: degiu. Private to "guide": -. Private to "guidées": sé.
"guide" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV · "guidées" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- guide ← gguide · giude · gudie · guidde · guied · ugide
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "guide" and "guidées" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "guide" or "guidées" show up more?
After this comparison
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- Full dictionary entry for "guide" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "guidées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #325,956 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "guide" and "guidées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "guidées vs guinéens". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #325,956 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.