Which to use
“guidée” and “guider” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,499
- “guidée” frequency rank
- #9,325
- “guider” frequency rank
- 27824
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | guidée | guider |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de guider. | Accompagner quelqu’un pour lui montrer le chemin. |
Same sound, different letters: guidée vs guider
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - guidée / guider
This is the hard kind. guidée and guider are pronounced identically (\ɡi.de\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27824, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
guidée is recorded at frequency rank #18,499, classified as averb, pronounced \ɡi.de\. guider is at rank #9,325, 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 27824, this pair ranks #326,552 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of guidée vs guider
Shared letters: degiu. Private to "guidée": é. Private to "guider": r.
"guidée" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVV · "guider" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- guider ← gguider · giuder · gudier · guidder · guiderr · guidre · guiedr · ugider
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "guidée" and "guider" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "guidée" or "guider"?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "guidée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "guider" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #326,552 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "guidée" and "guider" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "guidée vs guidera". 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 #326,552 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.