gift
/ɡɪft/noun, verb
gift is spelled G-I-F-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 60 times per million words in written English, the 1,724th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, gift means “Something given to another voluntarily, without charge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of gift is gifts.
How many letters and syllables are in gift?
| Letters | 4: G-I-F-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 60 times per million words; the 1,724th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is gift?
Gift appears 60 times per million words in written English, the 1,724th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce gift?
- US /ɡɪft/
Gift has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-gift.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-gift.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with gift?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as gift from its last stressed vowel (/ɪft/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of gift
- gifts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- gifting participle, present
- gifted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does gift mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.
She gave him a cell phone as a birthday gift.
- 2
A talent or natural ability.
She had a gift for playing the flute.
- 3
Something gained incidentally, without effort.
- 4
The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing.
The office is in the gift of the President.
- 5
AustraliaA footrace, often a short one with a prize, sometimes with a handicap system whereby runners start from different positions based on their past performance.
[…] Stawell Gift Committee requested a special train for the gift's one hundredth anniversary celebration but […]
verb
- 1
To give as a gift or donation.
- 2
To give away, to concede easily.
noun
- 1
Acronym of gamete intrafallopian transfer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Gift in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | présent, cadeau, don , talent , donner, faire don de |
| German | Geschenk, Präsent, Spende, Gabe , Begabung , schenken |
| Portuguese | presente, prenda , dom, talento , dar de presente , dádiva |
| Spanish | regalo, obsequio, aguinaldo, agasajo , don, talento |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does gift come from?
From Middle English yifte, ȝift, partly from Old English ġift, ġyft (“giving, consideration, dowry, wedding”) and Old Norse gipt (“gift, present, wedding”); both from Proto-Germanic *giftiz (“gift”). Equivalent to give + -t (etymologically yive + -t).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).