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Definitions: Tale |
TaleNoun1. An account describing incidents or events; "a farfetched narrative"; "after dinner he told the children stories of his adventures". 2. A trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tale" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Computing | TALE Typed Applicative Language Experiment. M. van Leeuwen. Lazy, purely applicative, polymorphic. Based on typed second order lambda-calculus. "Functional Programming and the Language TALE", H.P. Barendregt et al, in Current Trends in Concurrency, LNCS 224, Springer 1986, pp.122-207. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Bible | Tale (1.) Heb. tokhen, "a task," as weighed and measured out = tally, i.e., the number told off; the full number (Ex. 5:18; see 1 Sam. 18:27; 1 Chr. 9:28). In Ezek. 45:11 rendered "measure." (2.) Heb. hegeh, "a thought;" "meditation" (Ps. 90:9); meaning properly "as a whisper of sadness," which is soon over, or "as a thought." The LXX. and Vulgate render it "spider;" the Authorized Version and Revised Version, "as a tale" that is told. In Job 37:2 this word is rendered "sound;" Revised Version margin, "muttering;" and in Ezek. 2:10, "mourning." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: TaleSynonyms: fib (n), narration (n), narrative (n), recital (n), story (n), taradiddle (n), tarradiddle (n), yarn (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Description | Narrative, history; memoir, memorials; annals; (chronicle); saga; tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette; personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions; anecdote, ana, trait. |
Numeration | Noun: numeration; numbering; Verb: pagination; tale, recension, enumeration, summation, reckoning, computation, supputation; calculation, calculus; algorithm, algorism, rhabdology, dactylonomy; measurement; statistics. |
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Screenplays | You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. (There's Something About Mary; writing credit: Ed Decter; John J. Strauss) I wonder if people will ever put us into tale or song? (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Unfortunately, you won't live to tell the tale. (The Hunchback of Notre Dame; writing credit: Victor Hugo; Irene Mecchi) Beth, honey, nobody likes a tattle tale. (The Oblongs...; writing credit: Ana Katz) So Mr King, what tale of horror and the macabre are you working on now? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Lyrics | And you have a sad tale to tell ("Heartbreak Hotel"; performing artist: Elvis Presley) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973) The Electron's Tale (1971) Tale of Bearded Clam (1971) The Tale of Two Leaves and a Bud (1971) A Fairy Tale for Adults (1970) | |
Song Titles | Fairy Tale (performing artist: Willie Murphy) A Tale Of Two Lovers (performing artist: The Tokens) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The saga of trachoma is a sad tale of dirt, dust, warm climates and flies. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by A. Fisher.. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Lamb | The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. |
Hans Christian Anderson | Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger. |
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. |
Sheridan | Tale bearers are as bad as tale makers. |
Washington Irving | His [man's] history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin. |
William Shakespeare | Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. |
| Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale. | |
| Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. | |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself. (reference) |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | Only, as my tale went on, she drew a little short quick breath now and then, like a child panting with delight. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | There seemed to be here the groundwork of a tale. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At this solemn moment G__ seemed like the king in the oriental tale, flesh above and marble below. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The grave and cordial voice went on easily with its tale, and in the pauses Stephen felt bound to set it on again with respectful questions. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. |
Macbeth | William Shakespeare | Out, out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ABRACADABRA. By Abracadabra we signify An infinite number of things. 'Tis the answer to What? and How? and Why? And Whence? and Whither? -- a word whereby The Truth (with the comfort it brings) Is open to all who grope in night, Crying for Wisdom's holy light. Whether the word is a verb or a noun Is knowledge beyond my reach. I only know that 'tis handed down. From sage to sage, From age to age -- An immortal part of speech! Of an ancient man the tale is told That he lived to be ten centuries old, In a cave on a mountain side. (True, he finally died.) The fame of his wisdom filled the land, For his head was bald, and you'll understand His beard was long and white And his eyes uncommonly bright. Philosophers gathered from far and near To sit at his feat and hear and hear, Though he never was heard To utter a word But "Abracadabra, abracadab, Abracada, abracad, Abraca, abrac, abra, ab!" 'Twas all he had, 'Twas all they wanted to hear, and each Made copious notes of the mystical speech, Which they published next -- A trickle of text In the meadow of commentary. Mighty big books were these, In a number, as leaves of trees; In learning, remarkably -- very! He's dead, As I said, And the books of the sages have perished, But his wisdom is sacredly cherished. In Abracadabra it solemnly rings, Like an ancient bell that forever swings. O, I love to hear That word make clear Humanity's General Sense of Things. Jamrach Holobom |
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| "Tale" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.58% of the time. "Tale" is used about 1,833 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 (singular) | 98.58% | 1,807 | 4,678 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.04% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (common) | 0.38% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,833 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tale": Canterbury tale ♦ cautionary tale ♦ fairy tale ♦ folk tale ♦ frame tale ♦ gothic tale ♦ heroic tale ♦ jejune tale ♦ merry tale ♦ nursery tale ♦ old wife's tale ♦ old wives tale ♦ old wive's tale ♦ old wives' tale ♦ resume the thread of a tale ♦ take up the thread of a tale ♦ tale a bearing on ♦ tale bearer ♦ tale bearing ♦ tale care of ♦ tale of horror ♦ tale taling ♦ tale teller ♦ tale telling ♦ tall tale ♦ tell its own tale ♦ tell tale ♦ tell the tale ♦ that tells its own tale ♦ To tell tale of ♦ traveler's tale ♦ traveller's tale ♦ unvarnished tale. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tale": tale-bearing, tale-spinners, tale-teller, tale-tellers, tale-telling. | |
Ending with "tale": fairy-tale, folk-tale, tell-tale. | |
Containing "tale": tell-tale-tit. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dragon tale | 5,226 |
fairy tale | 3,186 |
veggie tale | 2,265 |
english tale | 1,062 |
priston tale | 601 |
canterbury tale | 527 |
knight tale | 469 |
whale of a tale | 447 |
phantasia tale | 395 |
tale | 370 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tale"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | verhaal (account, history, narrate, narrative, relate, story, tell), storie (account, narrative, story). (various references) | |
Albanian | tregim (denotation, denotement, directing, indication, narration, narrative, novelette, pointing, production, recital, recitation, Rede, relation, story), thashetheme (backbite, badinage, chitchat, gossip, grape vine, gup, hearsay, idle gossip, noise, old wives' tales, report, rumor, rumour, scuttlebutt, tittle tattle, tootle, whisper), rrëfim (account, confession, narrative, recital, Rede, relation, shrift, story), rrëfenjë (narration, narrative). (various references) | |
Arabic | كذبة (deceit, false, falsehood, flam, lie, mendacity, story), نم (gossip, sneak, snitch, tattle, tell smb. smth., tell tales), قصة (account, anecdote, fiction, narration, narrative, novel, recital, report, story, yarn), وشى (blow the whistle, intersperse, malign, nark, peachy, rat, rubricate, sing, sneak, snitch, tattle, tell, tell on, tell tales, telltale, traduce), حكى (narrate, recount, relate, retrace, tell), حكاية (anecdote, history, narration, narrative, relating, relation, story, yarn), حديث خبر, إشاعة (breeze, buzz, gossip, grape vine, hearing, hearsay, report, rumor, rumour, story, word). (various references) | |
Basque | ipuin. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | число (number, numeral), клюка (cambock, cammock, gossip, noise, scuttlebutt, whiff), общ брой (count), приказка, история (affair, anecdote, history, story), измислица (concoction, excogitation, fable, fabrication, fairy tale, fake, fib, fiction, figment, flam, hoax, invention, make believe, make up, myth, nonentity, tall story, taradiddle). (various references) | |
Chinese | 故事 (narrative, story), 说 (Tales). (various references) | |
Czech | tlach, vyprávìní (narration, story, telling), povídka (romance, story), pohádka (fairy tale, story), příbìh (narration, narrative, spiel, story), kleveta (gossip, titbit), klep (buzz). (various references) | |
Danish | fortælling (account, narrative, story). (various references) | |
Dutch | vertelsel (account, narrative, story), vertelling (account, narrative, story), verhaal (account, history, narrative, regress, right of recourse, story), relaas (account, narrative, story). (various references) | |
Esperanto | rakonto (narrative, story). (various references) | |
Faeroese | søga (account, chronicle, history, narrative, story), frásøgn (account, narrative, story). (various references) | |
Farsi | چغلی (Denunciation, Rumble), قصه (Fiction, Marchen, Narrative), حکایت (Allegory, Marchen, Narrative, Story), حساب (Account, Arithmetic, Calculation, Score, Tab, Tally), خبرکشی , جمع (Aggregate, Mass, Plural, Rout, Summation, Tot, Total), افسانه (Fable, Fiction, Legend, Myth, Romance), شرح (Circumstance, Description, Explanation, Exposition, Geography, Gloss, Innuendo, Legend, Narrative, Recitation, Relation, Sketch, Statement, Story, Treatise), داستان (Fable, Fiction, Marchen, Narrative, Story). (various references) | |
Finnish | tarina (narrative, story), satu (fairy-tale, story), kertomus (account, narrative, report, story), juttu (anecdote, case, lawsuit, story). (various references) | |
French | stéatite, stéaschiste, rumeur, relation, rapporter (take back, talk, tell tales), raconter des histoires, raconter (talk about), récit, nouvelle, mentir, mensonge, histoire (fairy tale), conte (fairy tale), cafarder (tattle), épopée. (various references) | |
Frisian | ferhaal (account, narrative, story). (various references) | |
German | Geschichte (account, affair, business, history, narrative, pedigree, saga, spiel, story), Erzählung (account, narration, narrative, novella, relation, short story, story). (various references) | |
Greek | ιστορία (history, story). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | rrëfim (account, narrative, story). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתכו ת (format, lay out, layout, measure, measurement, number, proportion, scale, scheme, standard), מעשי" (anecdote, fairy tale, legend, story), שקר (false, falsehood, falsity, lie, lying, prevarication, sham, untruth), "'"" (narrative legend, telling), ב"ות" (fabrication, falsehood, fib, fish story), ספור (narration, numbered, recitation, saga, story, yarn). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mese (fable, romance, story, yarn). (various references) | |
Icelandic | saga (account, narrative, Saga, story). (various references) | |
Indonesian | riwayat (chronicle, history, sermon), hikayat (folklore, parable, saga). (various references) | |
Irish | scéal (narrative, story). (various references) | |
Italian | storia (affair, business, excuse, fib, history, story, yarn), racconto (novelette, romance, short story, story, yarn), fiaba (fairy, fairy tale, story). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 説話 (narrative), 物語 (legend, story), コンテナ船 (condense, condensed milk, condenser, condition, conditioner, conditioning, container ship, contemporary, contents, contra, contrabass, contract, contraction, contralto, contrast, control, control amp, control program, control tower, controller). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せつわ (narrative), コント , ものがたり (legend, story). (various references) | |
Korean | 총계 (Amount, Summing, Tales). (various references) | |
Malay | cerita (account, narrative, story). (various references) | |
Manx | rick (consistence, intelligence, news, order, satisfaction, settled rule, settlement, steadiness, story, uniformity), naight (anecdote, intelligence, narration, news, tidings). (various references) | |
Norwegian | historie (account, history, narrative, story). (various references) | |
Occitan | conte. (various references) | |
Papiamen | fábula (fairy tale). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aletay.(various references) | |
Polish | opowiadanie (account, narrative, story). (various references) | |
Portuguese | narrativa (account, narration, narrative, recital, Rede, relation, story), conto (fable, fairytale, history, legend, narrative, romance, short story, story). (various references) | |
Romanian | scornealã (cock and bull story, invention), povestire (account, anecdotage, fable, narration, narrative, recital, recording, Rede, relation, short story, story, telling), poveste (Chronicle, concoction, lie, narrative, Rede, story), nãscocire (concoction, contrivance, discovery, fable, fabrication, fib, figment, invention, lie, make up, yarn), minciunã (bung, deceit, fabrication, falsehood, fib, gag, lie, lying, untruth), basm (fable, fairy tale, fiction, story). (various references) | |
Russian | сказка (fable, fairy tale, fairytale), сплетня (gossip, gup, scuttlebutt, tattle, whispering), рассказ (anecdote, love-story, name-story, narrative, novelet, recital, relation, story). (various references) | |
Scottish | sgeul (account, narrative, story). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | priča (narrative, story), neistina (falsehood, misstatement, untruth), laž (crammer, falsehood, flam, lie, sham, story, taradiddle, untruth). (various references) | |
Spanish | cuento (exaggeration, fable, fairy tale, romance, story, yarn). (various references) | |
Sranan | tori (account, betray, narrative, story). (various references) | |
Swedish | berättelse (account, history, narrative, relation, report, story), saga (fable, fairy tale, fairy-tale, legend, myth, saga), sägen (legend, myth, story, tradition), historia (account, affair, business, history, narrative, show, story). (various references) | |
Thai | เรื่องเล่า (narrative), เรื่องโกหก (myth), นิทาน (fable, fit). (various references) | |
Turkish | yalan (deceit, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, fib, flam, gammon, hollow, invention, lie, made up, mendacious, plumper, prevarication, quack, sham, shave, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tell a lie, telltale, untrue, untruth, untruthful), rivayet (fame, grapevine, narrative, rumor, rumour, story), masal (fable, fairy tale, fiction, romance, story, yarn), kıssa (fable, parable, Rede), hikâye (anecdote, history, narration, narrative, recital, Rede, story, version, yarn), efsane (fable, legend, myth, saga, story), dedikodu (dirt, gossip, grapevine, grapevine telegraph, hearsay, report, rumor, rumour, scandal, scuttlebutt, talk, tattle, tittle tattle, tittletattle), öykü (narrative, recital, story). (various references) | |
Turkmen | beяanama, beяan. (various references) | |
Ukranian | число (date, number, numeric, tally), фікція (fiction, figment, negation, non-ens, nonentia, nonentity, pasteboard), оповідання (narration, recital, relation), побрехенька. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | truyện ngắn chuyện bịa đặt, truyện (novel, reading), miễn phê bình chuyện cũ rích tôi muốn nói lên quan điểm của tôi về vấn đề đó. (various references) | |
Welsh | stori (narrative, story). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fabula, fabulam, fabulas, fabulis, historia. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 1, Verse 28 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Exhlqen de h akoh autou euquV eiV olhn thn pericwron thV galilaiaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et processit rumor eius statim in omnem regionem Galilaeae |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & sona ferde his hlysa to galilea-riche. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the tale, `or tything, of hym wente forth anoon in to al the cuntree of Galilee. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And immediatly his fame spreed abroade throughoute all the region borderinge on Galile. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region around Galilee. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And news of him went out quickly everywhere into all parts of Galilee round about. |
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| Language | Mark Chapter 1, Verse 28 |
| Bulgarian | И всички се смаяха, тъй щото разискваха помежду си, думайки: Що е това? Едно ново учение! С власт заповядва и на нечистите духове, и те Му се покоряват! |
| Cebuano | Ug sa kalit ang iyang kabantug mikaylap sa tanang kasikbit nga dapit sulod sa kayutaan sa Galilea. |
| Chinese | 耶 穌 的 名 聲 、 就 傳 遍 了 利 利 的 四 方 。 |
| Croatian | I proèulo se odmah o njemu posvuda, po svoj okolici galilejskoj. |
| Danish | Og Rygtet om ham kom straks ud alle Vegne i hele det omliggende Land i Galilæa. |
| Dutch | En Zijn gerucht ging terstond uit, in het gehele omliggende land van Galilea. |
| Finnish | Ja hänen maineensa levisi kohta koko ympäristöön, kaikkialle Galileaan. |
| French | Et sa renommée se répandit aussitôt dans tous les lieux environnants de la Galilée. |
| Gaelic | `Agus sgaoil iomradh air gun dail feadh duthaich Ghalile uile. |
| German | Und sein Gerücht erscholl alsbald umher in das galiläische Land. |
| Haitian Creole | Se tout moun ki t'ap nonmen non l' nan peyi Galile a. |
| Hungarian | És azonnal elméne az õ híre Galilea egész környékére. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Maka berita tentang Yesus tersebar dengan cepat ke seluruh daerah Galilea. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka dengan segera berpecah-pecahlah kabar dari hal Yesus itu di seluruh daerah jajahan Galilea. |
| Italian | La sua fama si diffuse subito dovunque nei dintorni della Galilea. |
| Korean | 예 수 의 소 문 이 곧 온 갈 릴 리 사 방 에 퍼 지 " 라 |
| Maori | Na paku tonu atu tona rongo ki nga wahi katoa e tata ana ki Kariri. |
| Modern Greek | Εξηλθε δε η φημη αυτου ευθυς εις ολην την περιχωρον της "αλιλαιας. |
| Norwegian | Og ryktet om ham kom straks ut allesteds i hele landet deromkring i Galilea. |
| Portuguese | E logo correu a sua fama por toda a região da Galiléia. |
| Rumanian | Wi kndatq I s`a dus vestea kn toate kmprejurimile Galileii. |
| Russian | й УЛПТП ТБЪПЫМБУШ П оЕН НПМЧБ П ЧУЕК ПЛТЕУФОПУФЙ Ч зБМЙМЕЕ. |
| Shuar | Tura ti Wárik nu Túrunamu Ashí Kariréa nunkanam antunkamiayi. |
| Spanish | Y pronto se extendió su fama por todas partes, en toda la región alrededor de Galilea. |
| Swahili | Habari za Yesu zikaenea upesi kila mahali katika wilaya ya Galilaya. |
| Swedish | Och ryktet om honom gick strax ut överallt i hela den kringliggande trakten av Galileen. |
| Thai | ในข"ะนั้น กิตติศัพท์ของพระองค์ไ"้เลื่องลือไปทั่วแว่นแคว้นบ้านเมืองที่อยู่รอบแขวงกาลิลี |
| Ukrainian | І чутка про Нього пішла хвилі ті"ї по всій "алілейській країні. |
| Uma | Ngkai ree, kamolele-nami kareba to mpotompo'wiwi Yesus hobo' hi tana' Galilea. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tale": talebearer, talebearers, talebearing, talebearings, talent, talented, talentless, talents, taler, talers, tales, talesman, talesmen, taleysim. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tale": folktale, stale, tattletale, telltale. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tale": acatalectic, acatalectics, catalectic, catalectics, catalepsies, catalepsy, cataleptic, cataleptically, cataleptics, catalexes, catalexis, folktales, hypercatalectic, hypercatalexes, hypercatalexis, metaled, multitalented, pantalets, pantalettes, pedestaled, petaled, portaled, staled, stalely, stalemate, stalemated, stalemates, stalemating, staleness, stalenesses, staler, stales, stalest, subtotaled, tattletales, teetotaled, teetotaler, teetotalers, telltales, totaled, untalented. (additional references) | |
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"Tale" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ataleh, Atel, Atla, atle, atlee, atlet, Atli, atlu, etale, etzli, Itale, taale, tabe, tacle, tadle, taely, tafe, tafle, tage, tagl, taile, tailem, taje, tal, tala, talar, talbe, tald, talee, Talei, talen, taler, taley, talg, talia, talic, talio, talir, talle, tallec, tallet, talli, tallo, talm, talo, talot, talq, talt, talu, taly, talz, taqe, tarle, taule, tave, tawe, tawle, taxe, taye, tayler, Tayloe, teale, teele, tela, telae, tele, telea, telec, telee, teleg, telek, telen, teleo, telep, teli, tellee, telne, telo, tely, terle, thale, tiel, tiele, Tilea, tilen, tilf, tille, tilleul, tilye, Tkalec, tlabe, tlade, Tlali, tlaw, tle, tlem, Tli, tolay, Tolbe, tole, tolem, tolu, trala, trale, ttle, tuel, tulo, tuple, Twala, twale, tyae, tyle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tale" (pronounced tā"l) |
| 3 | t ā" l | curtail, detail, entail, stale, tail. |
| 2 | -ā" l | ail, ale, assail, avail, bail, bale, braille, Carrell, dale, derail, exhale, fail, flail, frail, gale, grail, hail, Hale, impale, inhale, jail, kail, kale, mail, maile, male, nail, pail, pale, prevail, quail, quale, rail, sail, sale, scale, shale, snail, surveil, trail, tramell, travail, unveil, Vail, Vale, veil, wail, Wale, whale. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: late, tael, teal, tela. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-t" | |
-1 letter: ale, alt, ate, eat, eta, lat, lea, let, tae, tea, tel. | |
-2 letters: ae, al, at, el, et, la, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-t" | |
+1 letter: aglet, alate, alert, alter, artel, blate, bleat, cleat, dealt, delta, eclat, elate, exalt, fetal, lated, laten, later, latex, lathe, latke, latte, leant, leapt, least, lepta, lutea, metal, palet, petal, plate, pleat, ratel, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, table, taels, taler, tales, teals, telae, telia, tepal, tesla, valet. | |
+2 letters: ablate, ablest, acetal, acetyl, aglets, aiglet, alated, alates, albeit, albite, alerts, alters, althea, amulet, anklet, antler, aplite, armlet, artels, atelic, auklet, ballet, battle, bleats, boatel, cablet, callet, camlet, cantle, caplet, cartel, castle, cattle, cental, chalet, claret, cleats, daleth, dartle, delate, deltas, dental, desalt, detail, dilate, eaglet, eclats, elated, elater, elates, eluant, eluate, elytra, entail, estral, etalon, exalts, falter, fealty, featly, festal, fetial, foetal, folate, gallet, gelant, gelate, gelati, gelato, halest, halite, halted, halter, hamlet, hantle, haslet, health, hyetal, labret, lament, lamest, lanate, lancet, lappet, lasted, laster, lateen, lately, latens, latent, latest, lathed, lather, lathes, latkes, latten, latter, lattes, laxest, lealty, learnt, leasts, legate, legato, lethal, levant, ligate, loathe, lobate, locate, lunate, luteal, luxate, lyrate, lysate, lyttae, malate, mallet, malted, mantel, mantle, meatal, mental, metals, muleta, neatly, oblate, oleate, osteal, palate, palest, palets, pallet, palter, pastel, pelota, petals, placet, planet, plated, platen, plater, plates, pleats, ratels, rattle, realty, rectal, relate, rental, retail, retial, retral, sallet, salted, salter, saltie, salute, samlet, septal, shelta, slated, slater, slates, slatey, solate, stable, staled, staler, stales, staple, steals, stelae, stelai, stelar, stella, tabled, tables, tablet, tackle, tailed, tailer, taille, talced, talent, talers, talked, talker, talkie, taller, tamale, tamely, tangle, tassel, tattle, teasel, teazel, teazle, tectal, telega, telial, tenail, tepals, tergal, teslas, thaler, thecal, thenal, tineal, tolane, tramel, travel, valets, varlet, velate, vestal, wallet, wattle, wealth, zealot. | |
+3 letters: abettal, ablated, ablates, abluent, abluted, acetals, acetyls, acolyte, actable, acutely, acylate, adeptly, adulate, aiglets, ailment, albites, alerted, alerter, alertly, aliment, alkanet, aloetic, altered, alterer, althaea, altheas, alunite, amplest, amulets, anethol, anklets, annulet, anolyte, antlers, antlike, apetaly, aplenty, aplites, apostle, apteral, armlets, article, artless, astilbe, atelier, athlete, atingle, atlases, auklets, auldest, baldest, ballets, ballute, bastile, batlike, battled, battler, battles, beastly, belated, beleapt, beltway, benthal, bestial, bimetal, bitable, blanket, blasted, blaster, blastie, blather, blatted, blatter, bleated, bleater, bloated, bloater, boatels, brattle, bullate, cablets, calcite, callets, calmest, calotte, calumet, camlets, cantles, capelet, caplets, cartels, castled, castles, catlike, celesta, centals, central, chaetal, chalets, chaplet, chattel, chelate, cholate, ciliate, citable, citadel, clarets, clatter, clavate, cleated, climate, collate, crestal, daleths, dartled, dartles, datable, datedly, dealate, deathly, default, deflate, delated, delates, delator, deltaic, dentals, desalts, details, dextral, dialect, dilated, dilater, dilates, eaglets, earthly, eatable, ectypal, edictal, egalite, elastic, elastin, elaters, elating, elation, elative, elegant, elevate, eluants, eluates, emulate, entails, enteral, enthral, epaulet, estival, estrual, etalons, eternal, ethanol, ethical, exactly, exalted, exalter, explant, falcate, falsest, falters, fateful, fatless, fatlike, faulted, fellate, fetials, filiate, flasket, flatbed, flatlet, flatted, flatten, flatter, fleapit, floated, floatel, floater, flotage, folates, foliate, galatea, galeate, gallate, galleta, gallets, gantlet, gelants, gelated, gelates, gelatin, gelatos, gellant, genital, gestalt, getable, glaiket, gloated, gloater, globate, gluteal, greatly, halbert, halites, haltere, halters, hamlets, hantles, haplite, harslet, haslets, hatable, hatchel, hateful, hatless, hatlike, healths, healthy, heeltap, heliast, hellcat, hematal, hyalite, inflate, irately, isolate, kantele, keitloa, labiate, labrets, laciest, lactase, lactate, lacteal, lactean, lactone, lactose, laities, lakiest, lambent, lambert, laments, lamster, lanated, lancets, languet, lankest, lantern, lappets, largest, lasters, latched, latches, latchet, lateens, latency, latened, latents, laterad, lateral, latests, latexes, lathers, lathery, lathier, latices, latrine, lattens, lattice, layette, lazaret, laziest, leaflet, leanest, leather, legated, legatee, legates, legator, legatos, lemmata, leotard, lethals, lethean, levants, levator, librate, ligated, ligates, limbate, lineate, liquate, literal, loathed, loather, loathes, lobated, located, locater, locates, lomenta, lunated, luxated, luxates, lyrated, lysates, malates, maleate, mallets, maltase, malteds, maltier, maltose, mantels, mantled, mantles, mantlet, marlite, martlet, matelot, matless, meatily, meltage, metaled, metical, muletas, mutable, nailset, neutral, notable, oatlike, oatmeal, oblates, oleates, omental, outleap, ovately, ovulate, oxalate, palates, paletot, palette, paliest, pallets, palmate, palpate, palters, pantile, partlet, pastels, patella, peartly, pelotas, peltast, peltate, penalty, persalt, petaled, petrale, peytral, pileate, placate, placets, placket, plaited, plaiter, planate, planets, planted, planter, plaster, platane, plateau, platens, platers, platier, platies, platted, platter, playlet, pleated, pleater, plectra, plicate, plumate, polecat, polenta, potable, prattle, prelate, prolate, psalter, pteryla, pulsate, quetzal, ratable, rathole, ratlike, ratline, rattled, rattler, rattles, realest, realist, reality, reallot, realter, realtor, recital, redtail, reflate, refloat, refutal, related, relater, relates, relator, reliant, rentals, replant, replate, reslate, retable, retails, retinal, retrial, salient, sallets, saltern, salters, saltest, saltier, salties, saltine, saltire, saluted, saluter, salutes, samlets, satchel, scarlet, sealant, segetal, sheltas, skatole, slainte, slanted, | |
