gimme
/ˈɡɪmiː/contraction, noun
gimme is spelled G-I-M-M-E. The wrong spelling people search most is gimmie: about 260 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Gimme is a contraction meaning “Give me”.
How many letters and syllables are in gimme?
| Letters | 5: G-I-M-M-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.7 times per million words; the 13,496th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, gimmie, about 260 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell gimme?
Gimme is spelled G-I-M-M-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for gimme in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is gimme?
Gimme appears 3.7 times per million words in written English, the 13,496th 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 gimme?
- /ˈɡɪmiː/
Gimme has 2 syllables (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-gimme.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of gimme
- gimmes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does gimme mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
contraction
- 1
colloquialGive me.
Gimme the ball.
noun
- 1
colloquialThat which is easy to perform or obtain, especially in sports.
- 2
colloquialA tap-in putt, usually a couple inches from the cup.
Don't count two strokes for that – it was a gimme: if I wasn't holding the flag with my other hand for the next players waiting for the hole, it would have gone in.
- 3
colloquialThat which is simply given away for nothing; a freebie.
- 4
That which is certain; that which is sure to be the case.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does gimme come from?
Written form of a reduction of give me.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).