Which to use
“guilde” and “guinée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #12,791
- “guilde” frequency rank
- #5,564
- “guinée” frequency rank
- 18355
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | guilde | guinée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Au Moyen Âge en Europe, corporation de personnes, en général des artisans, des marchands ou des artistes, partageant et promouvant des intérêts communs. | Pièce de monnaie britannique en or frappée de 1663 à 1813, valant entre 20 et 30 shillings (1-1,5 livre) selon le cours de l’or jusqu’en 1717 et 21 shillings (1,05 livre) depuis. |
Where the eye mixes guilde and guinée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. guilde (CVVCCV) and guinée (CVVCVV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Visual trap between guilde and guinée
A purely visual mix-up. guilde (\ɡild\) and guinée (\ɡi.ne\) 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 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18355, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
guilde is recorded at frequency rank #12,791, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɡild\. guinée is at rank #5,564, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɡi.ne\.
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 18355, this pair ranks #378,751 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of guilde vs guinée
Shared letters: egiu. Private to "guilde": dl. Private to "guinée": né.
"guilde" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV · "guinée" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- guilde ← gguilde · giulde · guidle · guildde · guiled · guillde · gulide · ugilde
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "guilde" and "guinée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "guilde" or "guinée"?
Useful next steps
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "guilde" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "guinée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #378,751 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "guilde" and "guinée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "gille vs guilde". 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 #378,751 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.