tale
A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
Noun 3 meanings
A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
“the Canterbury Tales”
A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
“Don't tell tales!”
Etymology
From Middle English tale, from Old English talu (“tale, series, calculation”), from Proto-West Germanic *talu, from Proto-Germanic *talō (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to reckon, count”).
TALE at a glance
TALE has 4 letters and scores 4 points in Scrabble (T 1 + A 1 + L 1 + E 1) and 5 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,334 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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