TALLIES

Definition: TALLIES

TALLIES

Plural

1. Of Tally

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "TALLIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1609. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Numeration	Abacus, logometer, slide rule, slipstick, tallies, Napier's bones, calculating machine, difference engine, suan-pan; adding machine; cash register; electronic calculator, calculator, computer;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Benin	Following extensive public criticism, the Court reviewed the evidence in more detail, modified the tallies, and gave some of the numerous opposition candidates marginally higher total votes. (references)
Political Rights	Chad	The authorities also denied opposition observers access to official tallies after the vote. (references)
	Nigeria	All three parties engaged in the local purchase of false ballots and fraudulent tally sheets so that there were vast discrepancies between what observers saw and inflated tallies in some areas. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"TALLIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 74.42% of the time. "TALLIES" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	74.42%	32	61,292
Lexical Verb (-s form)	25.58%	11	106,044
Total	100.00%	43	N/A

Expressions using "TALLIES": To strike tallies ♦ writer of the tallies. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "TALLIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		帐簿 (tally). (various references)

Dutch		telmerken (assembly-marks). (various references)

French		marques d'assemblage. (various references)

German		stimmt überein (accords, coincides, jibes), geht auf. (various references)

Pig Latin		alliestay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"TALLIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Italies, lallies, tailles, Talei, talese, talis, tallec, tallens, Talleres, talli, tallie, Telios, tilleuls, Tollie, Tollies, Tollis, tolmides, tolmiea, tullie, vallies. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "TALLIES" (pronounced ta"lēz)
4	-a" l ē z	alleys, galleys, rallies, sallies, valleys.
3	-l ē z	alleles, anomalies, assemblies, Baileys, bellies, bullies, chilies, chilis, chillies, Collies, dailies, doilies, facsimiles, families, fillies, follies, Gillies, grizzlies, gullies, Hillbillies, hollies, homilies, jellies, jollies, lilies, monopolies, pulleys, subassemblies, subfamilies, tamales, trolleys, volleys, weeklies.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: tailles.
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-l-s-t"
	-1 letter: allies, illest, listel, sallet, saltie, stelai, stella, taille, tallis, telial.
	-2 letters: aisle, alist, ileal, islet, istle, least, lilts, lisle, litas, setal, slate, stale, stall, steal, stela, stile, still, taels, tails, tales, teals, telia, tells, tesla, tiles, tills.
	-3 letters: ails, aits, ales, alit, alls, alts, ates, east, eats, ells, etas, ilea, ills, isle, lase, last, late, lati, lats, leal, leas, leis, lest, lets, lies, lilt, list, lite, lits, sail, sale, sall, salt, sate, sati, seal, seat, sell, seta, sial, sill, silt, site, slat, slit, tael, tail, tale, tali, tall, teal, teas, tela, tell, tels, ties, tile, till, tils.
	-4 letters: ail, ais, ait, ale, all, als, alt, ate, eat, ell, els, eta, ill, its, las, lat, lea, lei, let, lie, lis, lit, sae, sal, sat, sea, sei, sel, set, sit, tae, tas, tea, tel, tie, til, tis.
	-5 letters: ae, ai, al, as, at, el, es, et, is, it, la, li, si, ta, ti.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-l-s-t"
	+1 letter: bastille, lealties, legalist, listable, literals, palliest, pastille, saltlike, tailless, talliers, tallises, tillages.
	+2 letters: allanites, allergist, ballistae, ballsiest, bastilles, bestially, celestial, fellatios, flatlines, gladliest, illatives, installed, installer, laetriles, landsleit, lazulites, legalists, legislate, libelants, localites, loyalties, medallist, metallics, oscillate, palletise, palliates, pastilles, pulsatile, reinstall, saliently, satellite, slatelike, stairwell, tailleurs, tailslide, tallithes, tenailles, teocallis, trailless, volatiles.
	+3 letters: allegorist, allergists, allethrins, alleviates, allosteric, allotypies, argillites, celestials, cleanliest, colligates, collimates, distillate, eightballs, fellations, flatliners, illustrate, installers, isolatable, labilities, legalistic, legalities, legislated, legislates, legislator, libellants, liberalist, linoleates, listenable, literalism, literalist, localities, medallists, metallizes, metalloids, millstream, molalities, oscillated, oscillates, paillettes, palletised, palletises, palletizes, papillotes, pastellist, pistillate, pollinates, reinstalls, salicylate, saltarelli, satellites, sclerotial, semilethal, sheathbill, societally, squalliest, stairwells, stealthily, sterically, tailplanes, tailslides, tasselling, teaselling, televisual, titillates, treadmills, treillages, vacillates, volatilise, whitewalls.
	+4 letters: allantoides, allegations, allegorists, alleviators, alliterates, allometries, allopatries, allosteries, allotropies, aquarellist, artilleries, artillerist, ascetically, aseptically, basipetally, bimetallics, bimetallism, bimetallist, blacklisted, blacklister, bristletail, callosities, cantillates, carnallites, celestially, citronellas, clericalist, crystalline, crystallise, crystallite, crystallize, deistically, disenthrall, distillates, drillmaster, elastically, ellipticals, eristically, essentially, faithlessly, fibrillates, gallantries, galleryites, illiterates, illuminates, illustrated, illustrates, inflatables, installment, ipsilateral, lateralizes, legislating, legislation, legislative, legislators, legislature, leptospiral, lethalities, liabilities, liberalists, lightplanes, linealities, literalisms, literalists, literalizes, literalness, mesothelial, millstreams, misallocate, paclitaxels, painfullest, palatalizes, palletising, palletizers, palliatives, pastellists, philatelies, philatelist, pluralities, potentillas, reinstalled, salicylates, scintillate, sectionally, semilethals, semitonally, sheathbills, sillimanite, skeptically, stainlessly, surveillant, syllabicate, triliterals, tripletails, trisyllable, ultrasimple, versatilely, vestigially, victuallers, volatilised, volatilises, volatilizes, vorticellas, whistleable, yellowtails.
	+5 letters: aiguillettes, alkalimeters, alkalinities, alleviations, alloantigens, angelologist, antiliberals, apophyllites, appellations, appellatives, aquarellists, artillerists, assaultively, battlefields, bibliolaters, bilateralism, billingsgate, bimetallisms, bimetallists, blacklisters, blastocoelic, boilerplates, bristletails, candlelights, caterpillars, citronellals, clericalists, cosmetically, crystallised, crystallises, crystallites, crystallized, crystallizer, crystallizes, cupellations, decollations, desolatingly, despotically, detasselling, disenthralls, disloyalties, domestically, drillmasters, ecstatically, egoistically, esoterically, flatulencies, forestalling, fritillaries, gelatinously, hallucinates, heliolatries, heliolatrous, hysterically, illegalities, illiteracies, illustrative, influentials, installments, interstellar, intervalleys, intestinally, isothermally, jesuitically, labiodentals, lamplighters, legislations, legislatives, legislatures, lexicalities, liberalistic, liberalities, likabilities, literalistic, literalities, livabilities, logicalities, lovabilities, majestically, meristically, metallurgies, metallurgist, misallocated, misallocates, miscalculate, miscellanist, multivalents, myeloblastic, osmolalities, osteological, palatialness, pedestalling, pestilential, philatelists, phyllotaxies, plainclothes, planetesimal, pliabilities, rambouillets, ratatouilles, realpolitiks, reinstalling, salabilities, scintillated, scintillates, semantically, semimetallic, septennially, sequentially, sericultural, sillimanites, steamrolling, stonewalling, subsatellite, surveillants, syllabicated, syllabicates, symmetallism, syndetically, systemically, tagliatelles, tessellating, tessellation, theistically, trailblazers, tranquillest, trisyllables, ultraleftism, ultraleftist, ultrarealism, ultrarealist, ultraviolets, unlistenable, valvulitises, volatileness, volatilities, wollastonite.
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