Word Confusion: Jangle vs Jiggle vs Jingle

Plural for the noun: jangles
Gerund: jangling

Third person present verb: jangles
Past tense or past participle: jangled
Present participle: jangling

Plural for the noun: jiggles
Gerund: jiggling

Third person present verb: jiggles
Past tense or past participle: jiggled
Present participle: jiggling

Plural for the noun: jingles
Gerund: jingling

Third person present verb: jingles
Past tense or past participle: jingled
Present participle: jingling

An argument, dispute, or quarrel

Verb, intransitive:
Make or cause to make a ringing metallic sound, typically a discordant one

To speak angrily

• [Archaic] Wrangle

Verb, transitive:
Make or cause to make a ringing metallic sound, typically a discordant one

• [With reference to nerves] Set on edge

To cause to become irritated or upset

Verb, intransitive:
Move about lightly and quickly from side to side or up and down

• Shake (something) lightly up and down or from side to side

Verb, transitive:
Move about lightly and quickly from side to side or up and down

Shake (something) lightly up and down or from side to side

A short slogan, verse, or tune designed to be easily remembered, especially as used in advertising

[Also jingle shell] A bivalve mollusk with a fragile, slightly translucent shell, the lower valve of which has a hole through which pass byssus threads for anchorage

Verb, intransitive:
Make or cause to make a light metallic ringing sound

• [Of writing] Be full of alliteration or rhymes

Verb, transitive:
Make or cause to make a light metallic ringing sound

A jangle of locks being unlocked sounded and then the gate jerked open.

Those McCrary and Macintosh boys had a jangle last night.

Verb, intransitive:
A bell jangled loudly.

The charms on her bracelet jangle as she moves.

Asaire shook his head, the bells on his hat jangling, although the sound was barely audible over the general din in the kitchens.

Verb, transitive:
Ryan stood on the terrace jangling his keys.

It was a thirty-eight point game that jangled the nerves.

He jangled the pots and pans.

The loud noise of the motors jangled his nerves.

The accident jangled his nerves.

They wobbled a little as she bounced on her steps, then rested with a quick jiggle as she stopped.

A quick jiggle of his door showed that it was locked.

Verb, intransitive:
His head jiggles up and down as he speaks.

The first layer is ready when it is golden brown, or when it does not jiggle when you take it out of the oven.

The fat that jiggles when you move, on the hips, thighs and tummy, isn’t the problem.

Verb, transitive:
He was jiggling his car keys in his hand.

The vampire shook his arms, jiggling the shackles.

His hand wrapped carefully around the handle and jiggled it lightly.

He makes up advertising jingles.

The opening words to the Beatles’ “Let It Be”, “Whisper words of wisdom, let it be” are a jingle.

I love the jingle of sleigh bells.

Where space permits, oysters and jingle shells sometimes anchor themselves to the horseshoe crab.

Verb, intransitive:
Her bracelets were jingling.

The group of sleigh bells hung above the door jingled merrily as Wendy and Samantha entered the general store.

Verb, transitive:
He jingled the coins in his pocket.

Here’s a roundup of places to gawk at holiday lights and some other visuals that might jingle your bells.