Which to use
“guide” and “guides” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,577
- “guide” frequency rank
- #9,174
- “guides” frequency rank
- 11751
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | guide | guides |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Celui, celle qui conduit une personne et, l’accompagnant, lui montre le chemin. | Pluriel de guide. |
Same sound, different letters: guide vs guides
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - guide / guides
This is the hard kind. guide and guides are pronounced identically (\ɡid\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “guide” sits inside “guides”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11751, 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\. guides is at rank #9,174, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɡid\.
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 11751, this pair ranks #407,949 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of guide vs guides
Shared letters: degiu. Private to "guide": -. Private to "guides": s.
"guide" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV · "guides" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "guide" and "guides" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "guide" or "guides" show up more?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "guide" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "guides" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #407,949 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "guide" and "guides" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "guidera vs guides". 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 #407,949 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.