GuidovsgutoTell them apart

Which to use

“Guido” and “guto” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#17,298
“Guido” frequency rank
#21,201
“guto” frequency rank
38499
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Guido guto
Definition Guido de Lusignam gota, pingo

Letter map: Guido vs guto

Shared letters muted; letters that set Guido and guto apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. Guido runs 5 letters (CVVCV) against guto's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
Guido
4 ch
guto

Spelling & dictionary notes on Guido vs guto

Guido and guto are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38499, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Guido is recorded at frequency rank #17,298, classified as anoun. guto is at rank #21,201, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈɡu.tɔ/.

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 38499, this pair ranks #27,953 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Guido vs guto

Shared letters: gou. Private to "Guido": di. Private to "guto": t.

"Guido" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV  ·  "guto" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Guido ← gguido · giudo · gudio · guiddo · guiod · ugido
  • guto ← gguto · gtuo · guot · gutto · ugto

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Guido" for "guto" ever safe?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "Guido" vs "guto" - which ranks higher?
"Guido" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,298 in our Portuguese list, against #21,201 for "guto". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "Guido" and "guto". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Guido" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "guto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #27,953 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Guido" and "guto" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Guam vs guto". 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 #27,953 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list