Writing Tip: Gibe, Jibe, and Jive

Sophie Michals
2 min readDec 10, 2019

What’s the difference between gibe, jibe, and jive?

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I looked this up recently when I was working on a piece that used jive to mean in agreement. I thought it should be jibe but wanted to see if jive is listed as an alternate spelling. More on that below.

These Three Words Look Similar But Mean Different Things

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Sophie Michals

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