That's a fib.
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Fib
//fɪb//
Synonyms for "fib" (108 found)
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Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (32)
Related words (54)
Noun(25 words)
Verb(1 words)
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More general
3 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
8 entriesetymologically related_to
3 entrieshas context
4 entriesis a
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
10 entriesTranslations
79 translations across 25 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- измислица noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- несъзнателна лъжа noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- послъгвам verb (to tell a more or less inconsequential lie)
Czech
4 entries- (malá, nevinná) lež noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- kecat verb (to tell a more or less inconsequential lie)
- lhát verb (to tell a more or less inconsequential lie)
- vymýšlet si verb (to tell a more or less inconsequential lie)
Danish
4 entries- hvid løgn noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- løgn noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- nødløgn noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- usandhed noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
Dutch
3 entries- gejok noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- leugentje noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- jokken verb (to tell a more or less inconsequential lie)
Estonian
1 entries- luiskama verb (to tell a more or less inconsequential lie)
Faroese
2 entries- pell noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- ósannindi noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
Finnish
1 entries- vale noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
French
4 entries- baratin noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- bobard noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- craque noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- baratiner verb (to tell a more or less inconsequential lie)
Galician
4 entries- bouba noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- broza noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- caroca noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- drola noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
German
4 entries- Fabulation noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- Fantasiegeschichte noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- Flunkerei noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- Schwindelei noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
Hungarian
4 entries- füllentés noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- lódítás noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- füllent verb (to tell a more or less inconsequential lie)
- lódít verb (to tell a more or less inconsequential lie)
Ido
2 entries- mentieto noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- mentietar verb (to tell a more or less inconsequential lie)
Indonesian
4 entries- bisa-bisaan noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- bohong noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- bokis noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- berbohong verb (to tell a more or less inconsequential lie)
Italian
4 entries- baggianata noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- bufala noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- bugia noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- fandonia noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
Japanese
1 entries- 方便 noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
Mongolian
1 entries- худал noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- hvit løgn noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- kvit lygn noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- kvit løgn noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
Polish
4 entries- bujda noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- kłamstewko noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- kłamać verb (to tell a more or less inconsequential lie)
- skłamać verb (to tell a more or less inconsequential lie)
Portuguese
2 entries- mentirinha noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- peta noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
Russian
4 entries- вы́думка noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- до́мысел noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- непра́вда noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- привира́ть verb (to tell a more or less inconsequential lie)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- sitna laž noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
Spanish
4 entries- mentirijilla noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- milonga noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- patraña noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
- trola noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
Turkish
1 entries- uydurma noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- marrening noun (a more or less inconsequential lie)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
To call that fabrication a fib would be a criminal understatement.
Source: tatoeba (10614283)
Aſk me no queſtions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
Source: wiktionary
Wouldn’t that serve as an excuse, in Boston? I am told they are very sincere; they don't tell fibs.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.