gives vs giveth, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“gives” and “giveth” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#991
“gives” frequency rank: #48,771
“giveth” frequency rank: 49762
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	gives	giveth
Definition	third-person singular simple present indicative of give	third-person singular simple present indicative of give

Letter map: gives vs giveth

Shared letters muted; letters that set gives and giveth apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. gives runs 5 letters (CVCVC) against giveth's 6 (CVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch

gives

6 ch

giveth

Pair insight - gives / giveth

gives and giveth are indexed as a confusable English 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 49762, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

gives is recorded at frequency rank #991, classified as averb, pronounced /ɡɪvz/. giveth is at rank #48,771, tagged as averb.

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 49762, this pair ranks #180,542 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of gives vs giveth

Shared letters: egiv. Private to "gives": s. Private to "giveth": ht.

"gives" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "giveth" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

gives ← ggives · gievs · givess · givse · givves · gvies · igves
giveth ← ggiveth · gievth · giveht · givethh · givetth · givteh · givveth · gvieth

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "gives" and "giveth" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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: "gives" vs "giveth" - which ranks higher?

"gives" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #991 in our English list, against #48,771 for "giveth". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

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Full dictionary entry for "gives" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "giveth" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #180,542 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"gives" and "giveth" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "givens vs giveth". 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 #180,542 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.