Which to use
“guitare” and “guitares” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,676
- “guitare” frequency rank
- #17,723
- “guitares” frequency rank
- 22399
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | guitare | guitares |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Luth à cordes pincées, à la touche garnie de frettes marquant les demi-tons, à six ou douze cordes. | Pluriel de guitare. |
Same sound, different letters: guitare vs guitares
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. guitare runs 7 letters (CVVCVCV) against guitares's 8 (CVVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - guitare and guitares
This is the hard kind. guitare and guitares are pronounced identically (\ɡi.taʁ\) and both work as anoun. 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 extra letter(s) - “guitare” sits inside “guitares”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22399, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
guitare is recorded at frequency rank #4,676, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɡi.taʁ\. guitares is at rank #17,723, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɡi.taʁ\.
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 22399, this pair ranks #358,188 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of guitare vs guitares
Shared letters: aegirtu. Private to "guitare": -. Private to "guitares": s.
"guitare" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCV · "guitares" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "guitare" and "guitares" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "guitare" vs "guitares" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "guitare" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "guitares" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #358,188 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "guitare" and "guitares" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "guitar vs guitares". 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 #358,188 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.