Skip to content
APG.American
Pronunciation Guide
HOW TO PRONOUNCE

GIF

/ɡɪf/

IPA accent not specified by source

Press play to hear how to pronounce GIF.

American Pronunciation Guide · 0:49
Watch on YouTube ↗

What does GIF mean?

noun

  1. Alternative letter-case form of GIF.
  2. A bitmap image in a particular format with support for multiple images per file or animations, and up to 256 distinct colors per frame, including a fully transparent color.

verb

  1. Alternative letter-case form of GIF.
More meanings (5)

noun

  1. Any short video without audio, usually one which loops.
  2. Any short video, in a format directly supported by HTML5 (ie. GIF, MP4, WebM)
  3. Abbreviation of granular iron(stone) formation
  4. Alternative form of GIF.

verb

  1. To create a GIF file of; (inexact) to create a similar animated image file of.
Wiktionary contributors Wiktionary contributors Wiktionary contributors

Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0

IPA pronunciation

/ɡɪf/

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗

Other dictionary pronunciations

/d͡ʒɪf/

These alternatives are not labeled by regional accent.

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗

Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.

In the pages of books

No suitable book passage is available for this word yet.