guidéesvsguideraTell them apart

Which to use

“guidées” and “guidera” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#25,342
“guidées” frequency rank
#40,299
“guidera” frequency rank
65641
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature guidées guidera
Definition Participe passé féminin pluriel de guider. Troisième personne du singulier du futur de guider.

Where the eye mixes guidées and guidera

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.

7 ch
guidées
7 ch
guidera

Visual trap between guidées and guidera

A purely visual mix-up. guidées (\ɡi.de\) and guidera (\ɡi.də.ʁa\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65641, 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\. guidera is at rank #40,299, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɡi.də.ʁa\.

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 65641, this pair ranks #71,438 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of guidées vs guidera

Shared letters: degiu. Private to "guidées": . Private to "guidera": ar.

"guidées" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVVC  ·  "guidera" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • guideragguidera · giudera · gudiera · guiddera · guidear · guiderra · guidrea · guiedra

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "guidées" and "guidera" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\ɡi.de\ versus \ɡi.də.ʁa\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "guidées" or "guidera"?
"guidées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,342 in our French list, against #40,299 for "guidera". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "guidées" and "guidera" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "guidées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "guidera" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #71,438 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "guidées" and "guidera" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "guident 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 #71,438 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list