Which to use
“guidées” and “guider” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #25,342
- “guidées” frequency rank
- #9,325
- “guider” frequency rank
- 34667
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | guidées | guider |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel de guider. | Accompagner quelqu’un pour lui montrer le chemin. |
Same sound, different letters: guidées vs guider
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - guidées and guider
This is the hard kind. guidées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34667, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
guidées is recorded at frequency rank #25,342, 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 34667, this pair ranks #282,241 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of guidées vs guider
Shared letters: degiu. Private to "guidées": sé. Private to "guider": r.
"guidées" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVVC · "guider" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- guider ← gguider · giuder · gudier · guidder · guiderr · guidre · guiedr · ugider
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "guidées" for "guider" ever safe?
Frequency check: "guidées" vs "guider" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"guidées" and "guider" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "guidées" 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 #282,241 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "guidées" and "guider" 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 #282,241 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.