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Hype vs Kype - What's the difference?

hype | kype |

As nouns the difference between hype and kype

is that hype is promotion or propaganda; especially, exaggerated claims while kype is the hook that develops in the lower jaw of an adult male salmon when it is ready to spawn.

As a verb hype

is to promote heavily; to advertise or build up.

hype

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Promotion or propaganda; especially, exaggerated claims.
    • After all the hype for the diet plan, only the results ended up slim.

    Verb

    (hyp)
  • To promote heavily; to advertise or build up.
    • They started hyping the new magazine months before its release.

    kype

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The hook that develops in the lower jaw of an adult male salmon when it is ready to spawn.

    • See also

    *Oncorhynchus , a genus named for the kype.

    References

    * kype, Collins English Dictionary * kype, Oxford English Dictionary