gilt vs give, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“gilt” and “give” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#444
“gilt” frequency rank: #14,818
“give” frequency rank: 15262
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	gilt	give
Definition	3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs gelten	geben

Letter map: gilt vs give

Shared letters muted; letters that set gilt and give apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

gilt

4 ch

give

Corpus notes: gilt and give

gilt and give are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15262, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

gilt is recorded at frequency rank #444, classified as averb, pronounced [ɡɪlt]. give is at rank #14,818, tagged as averb, pronounced […].

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 15262, this pair ranks #1,945,215 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of gilt vs give

Shared letters: gi. Private to "gilt": lt. Private to "give": ev.

"gilt" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "give" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

gilt ← ggilt · gillt · giltt · gitl · glit · iglt
give ← ggive · giev · givve · gvie · igve

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "gilt" for "give" ever safe?

No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.

Which is more common, "gilt" or "give"?

"gilt" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #444 in our German list, against #14,818 for "give". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "gilt" and "give".

Full dictionary entry for "gilt" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "give" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,945,215 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"gilt" and "give" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "give vs puzzles". 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 #1,945,215 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.