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Definition: Telling |
TellingAdjective1. Disclosing unintentionally; "a telling smile"; "a telltale panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down". 2. Powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument". 3. Producing a strong effect; "gave an impressive performance as Othello"; "a telling gesture". Noun1. An act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable". 2. Informing by words. 3. Disclosing information or giving evidence about another. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "telling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: TellingSynonyms: cogent (adj), impressive (adj), revealing (adj), telltale(a) (adj), weighty (adj), apprisal (n), notification (n), recounting (n), relation (n), singing (n), tattle (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitation | Exciting, absorbing, riveting, distracting; Verb: impressive, warm, glowing, fervid, swelling, imposing, spirit-stirring, thrilling; high-wrought; soul-stirring, soul-subduing; heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling; agonizing; (painful); telling, sensational, hysterical; overpowering, overwhelming; more than flesh and blood can bear; yellow. |
Importance | Significant, telling, trenchant, emphatic, pregnant; tanti. |
Influence | Adverb: with telling effect. |
Physical Energy | Adverb: strongly;Adverb: strongly; Adjective: fortiter in re; with telling effect. |
Prediction | Noun: prediction, announcement; program, programme; (plan); premonition; (warning); prognosis, prophecy, vaticination, mantology, prognostication, premonstration; augury, auguration; ariolation, hariolation; foreboding, aboding; bodement, abodement; omniation, omniousness; auspices, forecast; omen; horoscope, nativity; sooth, soothsaying; fortune telling, crystal gazing; divination; necromancy. |
Rite | Seven sacraments, impanation, subpanation, extreme unction, viaticum, invocation of saints, canonization, transfiguration, auricular confession; maceration, flagellation, sackcloth and ashes; penance; (atonement); telling of beads, processional; thurification, incense, holy water, aspersion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) Why are you telling me this (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan) Ya know, I've had more rewarding relationships but at least I can keep telling the same jokes (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) There are ways of telling whether she is a witch (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese) Would someone mind telling me, who are you (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) | |
Lyrics | You're not just telling stories (Telling Stories; performing artist: Tracy Chapman) And I'm telling you, you've made the (Can't Stop; performing artist: After 7) If I'm telling you the truth right now, Do you believe it (Games People Play; performing artist: Alan Parsons Project) So now I'm telling everybody (Never Keeping Secrets; performing artist: Babyface; writing credit: Babyface) Now it seems they're telling me (I Heard a Rumour; performing artist: Bananarama) | |
Clever | Death is life's way of telling you you're fired. (references; author: unknown) Telling the boss what a good worker you are is worth 1%, showing him is worth 96%. (references; author: unknown) If you want to be well-liked, never lie about yourself and be careful when telling the truth about others. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | You're Telling Me (1942) Telling the World (1928) The Making of No Telling (2001) | |
Song Titles | I'm Telling You Now (performing artist: Freddie and The Dreamers) Telling Stories (performing artist: Tracy Chapman) | |
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 | Station Mud - built in 12 feet of water and no telling how much mud Party off of Launch ELSIE III. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Egyptian tomb painting from 1450 B.C. showing officer with sounding pole Officer is telling crew to come ahead slow Engineers with cat-o'-nine-tails assuring proper response from engines. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Tools of the Trade: Public Affairs tools from the past for deploying and staying connected. From 16mm film to manual typewriters to trusty 35mm cameras, the professionals in Air Force public affairs have a proud heritage of telling the Air Force story. (U. |  | [Man telling two women of his way to avoid cholera] / C.J. Traviés. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Woman telling a man about her toothache] / Par Gavarni. Grave par Soyer. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Receives a visit from Lieutenant Joshua L. Goldberg, USNR, Jewish Chaplain for the Third Naval District, on 10 February 1943. Bykowski is telling Lt. Goldberg of his rescue after he had been blown overboard from USS Vincennes (CA-44) when she was sunk on 9 August 1942, during the Battle of Savo Island. Both of his legs were broken. Looking on is Lieutenant Commander Ferold D. Lovejoy, USNR (Medical Corps). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Seven "Old Salts" engaged in telling tall tales aboard USS Enterprise (1877-1909), circa 1887. Photographed by E.H. Hart, New York. Suitable verses from "The Tale of the Gyascutus" are printed below the original photographic image. The entire poem is provided below. Credit: NAVY. |  | Mirthful man telling story to four people. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | His wife was trying to head off the pigs without telling Hilton anything about it. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | I'm telling you Uncle, if they don't bloom ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "At The Door" by Jesse Koska Commentary: "Outreach time, telling people of the love." | "The Green Man" by Neil Smith Commentary: "This is the equivelant of the "dont walk" signs in america, although in uk -this is telling you that you can "walk"." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Anton Bruckner | Telling his class that a critic had called him a second Beethoven, Bruckner said, "How can anybody dare to say such a thing!" |
Aristotle | Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully. |
| It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. | |
Jean De La BruyFre | One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. |
| A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. | |
Johann Kaspar Lavater | Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it? |
Moliere | He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. |
Seneca | We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Miss Nash had been telling her something, which she repeated immediately with great delight |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | So Alice began telling them her adventures from the time when she first saw the White Rabbit |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Are you telling me, he said, "that you set yourself up to become President of the Galaxy just to steal that ship? |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At one time, the centenarian was telling stories |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He was telling them something about Tullabeg |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | What! Threat you me with telling of the King |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Winfield was breathless in his telling. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some experts recommend telling the child early. (references) | |
Given hope for improvement, patients may take the risk of telling you about bladder control problems. (references) | ||
Transgenic mice can serve as an animal model of a certain disease, telling researchers how genes work in specific cells. (references) | ||
Business | This is due to remnants of a very bureaucratic state administration, which is suspicious that its subjects are not telling the truth, or at least the whole truth. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | Local officials tricked one group of newly arrived refugee families into boarding a convoy of trucks that transported them to Afghanistan involuntarily by telling them that the trucks were going to take them to the New Shamshatoo refugee camp. (references) |
Human Rights | Liberia | The Supreme Court ruled that trial-by-ordeal--commonly the placement of a heated metal object on a suspect's body in an attempt to determine whether the defendant is telling the truth--is unconstitutional; however, the practice continued under an executive order. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | On September 26, he was last seen telling friends that he was going to report to the government security office; his whereabouts were unknown at year's end. (references) |
Political Rights | Jamaica | A ruling party Councilor was audiotaped telling squatters that a vote for the opposition would "seriously risk" their chance at securing legal housing. (references) |
Peru | In November 2000, President Paniagua issued a directive to state institutions, government officials, and the armed forces telling them to help foster neutrality by refraining from political involvement. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Cuba | Fourteen of the 30 delegates arrived before security forces began telling persons to leave, and 2 persons were detained and released the same day. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Cary Goldstein | The only thing I do know is that we have been telling the police, Marge in particular told the police, about a botched attempt that Bonny had told us about, when Caldwell, Blake and Bonny were out in the desert camping. |
Gerald Ford | Some call me an elder statesman. I don't know. I don't mind telling you that I'm not ready to quit yet! |
James Van Praagh | I'll tell you, he's telling me to tell Michael about a suicide. He'll know who he is, this man is, because he went to school with him. Now it's all coming in. |
Rush Limbaugh | Telling people to believe in themselves is the ultimate in compassion. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | My friends, on a serious note, I would like to end by telling you something Nancy and I have wanted to say to you for a long time. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Telling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 96.72% of the time. "Telling" is used about 5,660 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 96.72% | 5,474 | 1,786 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.14% | 178 | 23,220 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.14% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,660 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "telling": a telling look ♦ ad with telling effect ♦ be good at telling a story ♦ fortune telling ♦ i am telling that ♦ i made no bones about telling him so ♦ manner of telling ♦ tale telling ♦ telling blow ♦ telling example ♦ telling off ♦ telling smb. where to get off ♦ track telling ♦ with telling effect ♦ you're telling me!. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "telling": telling-all, telling-off, telling-them-to-go. | |
Ending with "telling": fortune-telling, joke-telling, re-telling, tale-telling, truth-telling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "telling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i dukshëm (apparent, appreciable, conspicuous, discernible, distinct, evidence, evident, in evidence, manifest, marked, memorable, mere, naked, notable, noticeable, observable, obvious, outward, overt, palpable, patent, perceptible, plain, pointed, prominent, rank, salient, self-explanatory, sensible, sheer, simple, speaking, substantial, thorough-paced, transparent, unconcealed, unqualified, visible). (various references) | |
Arabic | مفشي السر (inquisitional, revealer, tattletale), معبر (expressing, expressive, meaningful, passageway, significant, soulful), قيل (saying), قوي (able bodied, acute, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, full-bodied, furious, generous, hardy, hearty, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intense, intensive, keen, lively, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, tight, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful), شديد (acute, biting, boisterous, brusque, cordial, crass, dense, excruciating, extreme, forte, intense, intensive, keen, lusty, rigorous, shrill, stern, strong, tempestuous, terrible, vehement, vicious, violent). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | убедителен (convincing, demonstrative, eloquent, evidential, fair-spoken, forcible, persuasive, potent, seductive, solid, suasive, vigorous, weighty), силен (acute, athletic, beefy, emphatic, energetic, flush, forceful, forcible, foul-mouthed, full, generous, hard, heavy, high, intense, invulnerable, iron, loud, lusty, main, male, mighty, muscled, muscular, nappy, nervous, nervy, perishing, pithy, potent, powerful, rattling, robust, short, shrewd, smacking, smart, sounding, stark, stiff, strong, sturdy, swingeing, tenacious, thumping, thundering, torrid, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous), многозначителен (knowing, meaningful, pregnant, thoughtful), правещ силно впечатление, изразителен (emphatic, expressive, meaningful, nervous, pungent, speaking, talking, terse). (various references) | |
Chinese | 知道 (Knew, know, knowing, known, Tell, Told). (various references) | |
Czech | vyprávìní (narration, story, tale), výmluvný (eloquent, expressive, golden-mouthed, meaningful), pùsobivý (appealing, catchy, compelling, effective, forceful, forcible, imposing, impressive, operative, potential, reactive, workable), citelný (appreciable, perceptible), úèinný (active, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, operative, practical). (various references) | |
Danish | spor-telling (track telling). (various references) | |
Finnish | sattuva (appropriate, apt, to the point, triking). (various references) | |
French | racontant, révélateur (telltale), récit, narration, efficace, assené, éloquent. (various references) | |
German | wirkungsvoll (effecient, effective, effectively, efficient, efficiently, forceful), verräterisch (perfidious, telltale, traitorous, treacherous, treacherously, treasonable, treasonably), schlagend (apt, bashing, battering, batting, clubbing, convincing, dollying, flapping, hitting, percussive, pommeling, pummeling, slapping, slugging, socking, striking, whacking), sagend (saying), erzählende (narratively), erzählen (bandy, narrate, narrative, recount, relate, tell, to recount, to relate, to tell), empfindlich (appreciable, brittle, damageable, delicate, delicately, huffy, pettish, queasily, queasy, raw, sensitive, severe, sharp, spiky, squeamish, tender, thin-skinned, touchy, weak), eindrucksvoll (arrestingly, forceful, forcefully, impressive, impressively, spectacular, striking, tellingly). (various references) | |
Greek | λέγων (sayer, teller), αποκαλυπτiκός, αποκαλυπτοκός, αποτελεσματικόσ (effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient), αφήγηση (narration, recital, recitation, relation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | הגדה (narrative legend, tale). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sokatmondó (meaningful, pregnant, suggestive, telling look). (various references) | |
Indonesian | dampratan (scolding, telling-off, verbal abuse). (various references) | |
Italian | narrazione (account, narration, narrative, story, tale), espressivo (expressive, soulful). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 言上 (stating). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ごんじょう (stating). (various references) | |
Korean | 말함 (speaking, talking). (various references) | |
Manx | troiddey (altercate, altercation, berate, bicker, chide, chiding, dress down, dressing down, jaw, jaw scolding, mud-slinging, nag, nagging, objurgate, objurgation, quarrel, quarrelling, rate, row; squabbling, scold, scolding, set to, squabble, telling off, wigging), ginsh skeealyn (telling yarns), ginsh breagyn (story telling), cooisheraght (speaking, telling yarns). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ellingtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | que se faz sentir, que produz efeito, que causa impressão, notável (considerable, conspicuous, curious, distinguish, distinguished, extraordinary, interesting, notable, noted, noteworthy, noticeable, observable, pre-eminent, quaint, remarkable, salient, shining, singular, striking, uncommon), forte (accomplished, acute, bold, bouncing, brawny, cogent, decuman, firm, forceful, forcible, fort, forte, fortress, full-blooded, hale, hard, heavy, hefty, high, high-hearted, intense, intensive, keen, loud, lusty, manly, masculine, masterful, mighty, nappy, penetrating, pithy, potent, presidio, racy, red-blooded, robust, salt, sanguineous, seaworthy, sharp, sinewy, snorting, solid, stalwart, stark, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, swingeing, tough, two-fisted, unfailing, vehement, venturous, vigorous, wakeless, wholesome), eficaz (effective, effectual, efficacious, incisive, live, operative, powerful, virtual). (various references) | |
Romanian | semnificativ (considerable, eloquent, emphatic, expressive, graphic, graphical, important, knowing, meaning, meaningful, meaningfully, notional, significant, significantly, significative), povestire (account, anecdotage, fable, narration, narrative, recital, recording, Rede, relation, short story, story, tale), grãitor (convincing, eloquent, graphic, graphical, graphically, illustrative, indicative, persuasive), elocvent (eloquent, graphic, graphical, persuasively, silver-tongued), edificator (edifying, graphic, graphical, probative, self evident), demonstrativ (demonstrative, eloquent, expansive, graphic, graphical, illustrative), cu efect, care exprimã mult. (various references) | |
Russian | сообщать (acquaint, advise s, announce, communicate, communicate to, convey, impart, inform, lend, let ~ know, let us know, report, say [], says, send word, tell, told), многозначительный (meaningful, significant). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji deluje, efektivan (effective). (various references) | |
Spanish | narración (narration, narrative, recital, relation), fuerte (able, bad, big, bold, bouncing, brawny, burly, cast iron, cogent, ebullient, fierce, firm, forceful, forcible, Fort, forte, full-blooded, grievous, hard, Hardy, heady, hearty, heavy, hefty, high, intense, long, loud, lurid, lusty, manly, metier, mighty, potent, powerful, raw, ripe, robust, rugged, severe, sharp, sharply, solid, spanking, stiff, stoutly, strident, strong, sturdy, throbbing, tough, vigorous), enérgico (active, bold, brisk, dashing, determined, emphatic, energetic, forceful, forcible, forthright, hearty, high pressure, hot, lively, positive, powerful, pushful, snappy, spirited, sprightly, strenuous, strong, sturdy, vigorous, vital, zippy), eficaz (effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, operative, potent). (various references) | |
Swedish | talande (meaning, speaking, talking), kraftfull (emphatic, energetic, forceful, lusty, powerful, red blooded, strong, trenchant, vigorous, virile), dräpande (crushing, scathing), berättar (tells), berättande (narration). (various references) | |
Turkish | tesirli (effective, efficacious, influential), söyleme (articulation, confession, mention, relation, saying, utterance), etkili (commanding, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, forceful, forcible, hefty, influential, moving, operative, penetrating, penetrative, poignant, potent, powerful, sovereign, swinging, trenchant), belli eden. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розповідь (anecdote, narrative, tell), вибовтування, облік (accounting), наказ (behest, command, commandment, decree, decretal, delegation, dictate, injunction, mandate, order, prescript, wish, writ), ефектний (chic, dramatic, effective, glamorous, glamourous, showy, spectacular), догана (blame, bobbing, castigation, dressing down, objurgation, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reprobation, reproof, reproval, rowing, schooling, setdown, snub). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mạnh (hard, intense, intensive, marrowy, mighty, rough, smart, thundering), có hiệu quả (effectively, efficacious), đanh thép (strong), đích đáng (just, proper). (various references) | |
Welsh | cyr.haeddgar (incisive). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Samuel Chapter 11, Verse 19 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eneteilato tw aggelw legwn en tw suntelesai se pantaV touV logouV tou polemou lalhsai proV ton basilea |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Praecepitque nuntio dicens cum conpleveris universos sermones belli ad regem |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And comaundide to the messageer, seiynge, Whanne thou hast ful endid alle the wordis of the batail to the kyng, |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war to the king, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he gave orders to the man who took the news, saying, After you have given the king all the news about the war, |
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| Language | 2 Samuel Chapter 11, Verse 19 |
| Cebuano | Ug iyang gisugo ang sulogoon, nga nagaingon: Sa diha nga ikaw makatapus na sa pagsugilon sa tanang mga butang mahitungod sa gubat ngadto sa hari, |
| Chinese | 又 囑 咐 使 者 說 、 你 把 爭 戰 的 一 切 事 、 對 王 說 完 了 、 |
| Croatian | I zapovjedi glasniku ovako: "Kad pripovjediš kralju sve što se dogodilo u boju, |
| Danish | og han gav Sendebudet den Befaling: "Når du har givet Kongen Beretning om hele Slagets Gang, |
| Dutch | En hij beval den bode, zeggende: Als gij zult geeindigd hebben den gansen handel van dezen strijd tot den koning uit te spreken; |
| Finnish | Ja hän käski sanansaattajaa sanoen: "Kun olet kertonut kuninkaalle kaikki, mitä sodassa on tapahtunut, |
| French | Il donna cet ordre au messager: Quand tu auras achevé de raconter au roi tous les détails du combat, |
| German | und gebot dem Boten und sprach: Wenn du allen Handel des Streits hast ausgeredet mit dem König |
| Hungarian | És megparancsolá a követnek, mondván: Ha az ütközetnek egész lefolyását teljesen elõadtad a királynak, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Perintah Yoab kepada utusan itu, "Setelah baginda mendengar laporanmu tentang jalannya pertempuran ini, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka pesannya kepada utusan itu demikian: Setelah sudah engkau mempersembahkan segala hal ihwal peperangan itu kepada baginda, |
| Italian | e diede al messaggero quest'ordine: «Quando avrai finito di raccontare al re quanto è successo nella battaglia, |
| Maori | I ako ano ia te karere, i mea, E poto i a koe nga mea katoa o te whawhai te korero ki te kingi; |
| Norwegian | Og han bød sendebudet: Når du har talt ut til kongen om alt det som har hendt i krigen, |
| Portuguese | e deu ordem ao mensageiro, dizendo: Quando tiveres acabado de contar ao rei tudo o que sucedeu nesta peleja, |
| Rumanian | Wi a dat solului urmqtoarea poruncq: ,,Cknd vei isprqvi de istorisit kmpqratului toate amqnuntele luptei, |
| Swedish | Och han bjöd budbäraren och sade: "När du har omtalat för konungen allt vad som har hänt under striden, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "telling": tellingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "telling": foretelling, fortunetelling, hostelling, outtelling, retelling, storytelling. (additional references) | |
Words containing "telling": fortunetellings, retellings, storytellings. (additional references) | |
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"Telling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ellang, Etelin, taling, tealing, teeling, teleg, teling, telli, tieling, Tillings, tling, tollinge, tulling, tweeling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "telling" (pronounced te"ling) |
| 5 | t e" l i ng | foretelling, retelling. |
| 4 | -e" l i ng | Belling, compelling, dispelling, dwelling, excelling, expelling, felling, helling, Melling, misspelling, outselling, propelling, quelling, rappelling, rebelling, repelling, reselling, selling, shelling, smelling, Snelling, spelling, swelling, welling, yelling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | annealing, appalling, appealing, ailing, ambling, angling, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rattling, raveling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, rescheduling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, settling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gillnet. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-l-n-t" | |
-1 letter: gentil, lentil, lintel, tingle. | |
-2 letters: elint, glint, ingle, inlet, legit, tinge. | |
-3 letters: gelt, gent, gien, gill, gilt, glen, lent, lien, lilt, line, ling, lint, lite, nill, nite, tell, tile, till, tine, ting. | |
-4 letters: ell, eng, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, git, ill, leg, lei, let, lie, lin, lit, net, nil, nit, teg, tel, ten. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-l-n-t" | |
+1 letter: gillnets, glutelin. | |
+2 letters: allegiant, billeting, bulleting, colleting, extolling, fellating, filleting, galleting, genitally, glutelins, lengthily, meltingly, metalling, pelleting, retelling, tellingly, tillering, towelling. | |
+3 letters: allegation, belittling, collecting, diligently, exultingly, fleetingly, gillnetted, gillnetter, guillotine, hostelling, integrally, lateraling, leafleting, lightplane, outselling, outtelling, outyelling, retellings, sterlingly, tasselling, teaselling, teazelling, tinselling, towellings, tramelling, travelling, trellising, trolleying, trowelling, tunnelling, willingest. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Bible Trace 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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