GuidovsguildeTell them apart

Quick tell: Guido is a name, guilde is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Guido” is a name and “guilde” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#23,882
“Guido” frequency rank
#12,791
“guilde” frequency rank
36673
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Guido guilde
Definition Prénom masculin, correspondant à Guy. Au Moyen Âge en Europe, corporation de personnes, en général des artisans, des marchands ou des artistes, partageant et promouvant des intérêts communs.

Letter map: Guido vs guilde

Shared letters muted; letters that set Guido and guilde apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. Guido runs 5 letters (CVVCV) against guilde's 6 (CVVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
Guido
6 ch
guilde

Grammar separator: Guido vs guilde

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Guido is aname and guildeanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36673, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Guido is recorded at frequency rank #23,882, classified as aname. guilde is at rank #12,791, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɡild\.

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 36673, this pair ranks #267,950 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Guido vs guilde

Shared letters: dgiu. Private to "Guido": o. Private to "guilde": el.

"Guido" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV  ·  "guilde" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Guido ← gguido · giudo · gudio · guiddo · guiod · ugido
  • guilde ← gguilde · giulde · guidle · guildde · guiled · guillde · gulide · ugilde

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Guido" and "guilde" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Guido" is a name and "guilde" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "Guido" or "guilde" show up more?
"guilde" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,791 in our French list, against #23,882 for "Guido". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "Guido" vs "guilde" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Guido" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "guilde" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #267,950 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Guido" and "guilde" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Guido vs Guizot". 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 #267,950 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