guitarevsguitaresWhat's the difference?

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.

7 ch
guitare
8 ch
guitares

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

  • guitare ← gguitare · giutare · guiatre · guitaer · guitarre · guitrae · guittare · gutiare
  • guitares ← gguitares · giutares · guiatres · guitaers · guitaress · guitarres · guitarse · guitraes

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "guitare" and "guitares" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɡi.taʁ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "guitare" vs "guitares" - which ranks higher?
"guitare" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,676 in our French list, against #17,723 for "guitares". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list