Definition of tell

"tell" in the noun sense

1. Tell, William Tell

a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap)

"tell" in the verb sense

1. state, say, tell

express in words

"He said that he wanted to marry her"

"tell me what is bothering you"

"state your opinion"

"state your name"

2. tell

let something be known

"Tell them that you will be late"

3. tell, narrate, recount, recite

narrate or give a detailed account of

"Tell what happened"

"The father told a story to his child"

4. order, tell, enjoin, say

give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority

"I said to him to go home"

"She ordered him to do the shopping"

"The mother told the child to get dressed"

5. tell

discern or comprehend

"He could tell that she was unhappy"

6. assure, tell

inform positively and with certainty and confidence

"I tell you that man is a crook!"

7. tell, evidence

give evidence

"he was telling on all his former colleague"

8. distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart

mark as different

"We distinguish several kinds of maple"

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Quotations for tell

Tell me it snows. [ Proverb ]

Tell zeal it lacks devotion. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Tell it well or say nothing. [ Proverb ]

We look before and after,
And sigh for what is not.
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those
that tell of saddest thought [ Shelley ]

Roses fair on thorns do grow:
And they tell me even so
Sorrows into virtues grow. [ Dr. W. Smith ]

Neither hear nor tell secrets. [ Fuller ]

Children and fools tell truth. [ Proverb ]

I do not love thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why, I cannot tell;
But this alone I know full well
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell. [ Tom Brown ]

Tell money after your own mother. [ Proverb ]

You tell your story to a deaf man.

Use gentle words, for who can tell
The blessings they impart?
How oft they fall, as manna falls,
On some nigh-fainting heart. [ Ethel L. Beers ]

Gossips quarrel and tell the truth. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Yet, no - not words, for they
But half can tell love's feeling;
Sweet flowers alone can say
What passion fears revealing:
A once bright rose's wither'd leaf,
A tow'ring lily broken -
Oh, these may paint a grief
No words could ever have spoken. [ Moore ]

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream,
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem. [ Longfellow ]

He liveth long who liveth well.
All else is life but flung away;
He liveth longest who can tell
Of true things truly done each day. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Tell a lie, and find out the truth. [ Proverb ]

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell
The tortures of that inward hell! [ Byron ]

You tell your money over a gridiron. [ Proverb ]

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. [ Proverb ]

Tell me, my soul! can this be death? [ Pope ]

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown.
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie. [ Pope ]

Man, I tell you, is a vicious animal. [ Moliere ]

An old man never wants a tale to tell. [ Proverb ]

You can't tell a nut till you crack it. [ Proverb ]

Never tell your resolution before hand. [ John Selden ]

Oh, say! what is that thing called light,
Which I must never enjoy?
What are the blessings of the sight?
Oh, tell your poor blind boy! [ Colley Cibber ]

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Ah, Christ, that it were possible
For one short hour to see
The souls we loved, that they might tell us
What and where they be. [ Tennyson ]

Hang-head Bluebell.
Bending like Moses' sister over Moses,
Full of a secret that thou dar'st not tell! [ George MacDonald ]

He loves but lightly who his love can tell. [ Petrarch ]

Bright as does the morning star appear,
Out of the east with flaming locks bedight,
To tell the dawning day is drawing near. [ Spenser ]

I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life; but for my single self,
I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself. [ William Shakespeare ]

'Tis a stern and a startling thing to think
How often mortality stands on the brink
Of its grave without any misgiving;
And yet in this slippery world of strife,
In the stir of human bustle so rife.
There are daily sounds to tell us that Life
Is dying, and Death is living! [ Hood ]

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. [ William Shakespeare ]

Traverse the desert, and then ye can tell
What treasures exist in the cold deep well,
Sink in despair on the red parch'd earth,
And then ye may reckon what water is worth. [ Miss Eliza Cook ]

But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell. [ Homer, Pope's Iliad ]

Have I in conquest stretched mine arm so far
To be afeard to tell gray-beards the truth? [ Jul. Caes ]

Alas! I have not words to tell my grief;
To vent my sorrow would be some relief;
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain;
We groan, we cannot speak, in greater pain. [ Dryden ]

Tell a tale to a mare, and she'll let a fart. [ Proverb ]

Youth dreams a bliss on this side death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep.
More grateful than this marble sleep;
It hears a voice within it tell:
Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But 'tis not what our youth desires. [ Matthew Arnold ]

Though it be honest, it is never good
To bring bad news; give to a gracious message
An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell
Themselves when they be felt. [ William Shakespeare ]

Must I tell you a tale and find you ears too? [ Proverb ]

Tell not your foe when your foot is slipping. [ Proverb ]

Tell them, dear, if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being. [ Emerson ]

And eyes disclosed what eyes alone could tell. [ Dwight ]

Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why?
To find one good, you must a hundred try. [ Claude Mermet ]

Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who
Before us passed the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the road
Which to discover we must travel too. [ Omar Khayyam ]

The desert is mute, and dead men tell no tales. [ Laboulaye ]

Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true. [ Yogi Berra ]

That anxious torture may I never feel,
Which doubtful, watches over a wandering heart.
O, who that bitter torment can reveal.
Or tell the pining anguish of that smart! [ Byron ]

When over the street the morning peal is flung,
From yon tall belfry with the brazen tongue,
Its wide vibrations, wafted by the gale,
To each far listener tell a different tale. [ Holmes ]

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. [ Goldsmith ]

Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb
The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? [ Beattie ]

Say that she rail; why then I'll tell her plain.
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale;
Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear
As morning roses, newly washed with dew;
Say she be mute and will not speak a word,
Then I'll commend her volubility
And say she uttereth piercing eloquence. [ William Shakespeare ]

One may tell lies without the danger of the law. [ Proverb ]

Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried? [ Byron ]

The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore -
A shore that wears on her alluring brows
Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea
That blushed a tell-tale. [ Alexander Smith ]

God send me a friend that will tell me of my faults. [ Proverb ]

He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. [ Fuller ]

One must tell women only what one wants to be known. [ Caron ]

What of them is left, to tell
Where they lie, and how they fell?
Not a stone on their turf, nor a bone in their graves:
But they live in the Verse that immortally saves. [ Byron ]

Trees and fields tell me nothing; men are my teachers. [ Plato ]

Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth - the cowards! [ Joaquin Miller ]

Tell me what you like, and I will tell you what you are. [ John Ruskin ]

Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers. [ Emerson ]

I do love violets: they tell the history of woman's love. [ L. E. Landon ]

Husband, don't believe what you see, but what I tell you. [ Proverb ]

If you tell every step you will make a long journey of it. [ Proverb ]

To him that you tell your secret, you resign your liberty. [ Proverb ]

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts. [ Shelley ]

If one, two or three tell you, you are an ass, put on a tail. [ Proverb ]

The tell-tale out of school is of all wits the greatest fool. [ Swift ]

And let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [ Izaak Walton ]

Tell me why the ant midst summer's plenty thinks of winter's want. [ Prior ]

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The hooded clouds, like friars, tell their beads in drops of rain. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

If the bed could tell all it knows, it would put many to the blush. [ Proverb ]

Our pity is often misapplied, for none can tell what another feels. [ Proverb ]

Since you know all, and I nothing, tell me what I dreamed last night. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Tell a woman she's a beauty, and the devil will tell her so ten times. [ Proverb ]

If you tell me all you see, you'll tell what will make you feel shame. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

Tell him, there's a post come from my master, with his horn full of news. [ William Shakespeare ]

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people. [ Carlyle ]

Very few people know what love is, and very few of those that do, tell of it. [ Mme. Guizot ]

You are in a pitiable condition when you have to conceal what you wish to tell. [ Syrus ]

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest. [ Franklin ]

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

There are few circumstances in which it is not best either to hide all or to tell all. [ La Bruyère ]

In eastern lands they talk in flowers, and they tell in a garland their loves and cares. [ Percival ]

A bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. [ Ecclesiastes ]

Tell me, when shall these weary woes have end? or shall their ruthless torment never cease? [ Spenser ]

Ye may trace my step over the wakening earth by the winds which tell of the violet's birth. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair. [ Froude ]

The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same. [ Bayard Taylor ]

I will love you always! This is the eternal lie that lovers tell with the greatest sincerity.

Who that has loved knows not the tender tale which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Women never lie more astutely than when they tell the truth to those who do not believe them.

We tell our triumphs to the crowd, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. [ Bulwer Lytton ]

Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye, or a lie to the ear. [ Dr. Samuel Johnson ]

It is enough for thee to know what each day wills; and what each day wills the day itself will tell. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber; for though the wound may heal, the sear of it will remain. [ Sadi ]

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell that would tell anything. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times. [ F. A. Durivage ]

It is easier for a wit to keep fire in his mouth, than to hold in a witty saying that he is burning to tell. [ Cicero ]

You never will be saved by works; but let us tell you most solemnly that you never will be saved without works. [ T. L. Cuyler ]

Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best. [ Landor ]

One futile person, that maketh it his glory to tell, will do more hurt than many that know it their duty to conceal. [ Bacon ]

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it. [ Dickens ]

Do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

What are you worth today? Not in money, but in brains, heart, purpose, character? Tell yourself the truth about yourself. [ George H. Hepworth ]

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape. [ Paxton Hood ]

Alphabets, if rightly understood, can be made to tell their own history, as well as the history of those who employed them. [ Prof. Sayce ]

Cupid's bow is, the Asiatics tell us, strung with bees, which are apt to sting sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it. [ Miss Edgeworth ]

Dissimulation is but faint policy, for it asketh a strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell the truth and to do it. [ Bacon ]

An enlightened self-interest, which, when well understood, they tell us will identify with an interest more enlarged and public. [ Burke ]

No tongue can tell the joy of a pious mother, when her child is converted or turned from the way of folly to that of true wisdom. [ Mrs. Willard ]

Part with it as with money, sparing; pay no moment but in purchase of its worth: and what its worth ask death-beds; they can tell. [ Young ]

We tell the ladies that good wives make good husbands; I believe it is a more certain position that good brothers make good sisters. [ Johnson ]

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest. [ Ouida ]

Our humble lilies of the valley and our field sparrows are wise enough to tell us of Nature's overruling care, that makes happiness possible. [ Newell Dwight Hillis ]

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell a man at once and straightforward the purpose of any object, he fancies there's nothing in it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because it is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. [ Selden ]

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. [ Lytton ]

A face that had a story to tell. How different are faces in this particular! Some of them speak not; they are books in which not a line is written, save perhaps a date. [ Longfellow ]

Their avenging God! rancorous torturer who burns his creatures in slow fire! When they tell me that God made himself a man, I prefer to recognize a man who made himself a god. [ A. de Musset ]

If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure. [ St. Jerome ]

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. [ Beecher ]

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them - with a deep, living, godlike hatred. [ F. W. Robertson ]

Have something to tell, and tell it clearly, simply, without a trace of affectation or conscious effort at fine writing. I should advise the study of examples in this perfection of art. [ E P. Roe, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker if it is not the truth that he is speaking? If an eloquent speaker is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? [ Carlyle ]

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor; and no man can tell what becomes of his influence and example, that roll away from him, and go beyond his ken in their perilous mission. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is God is crying. And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is Probably because of something you did. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over. [ Colton ]

A companion that feasts the company with wit and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. [ Izaak Walton ]

The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are crimson, and his own white steeple furnishes him with a contradiction. [ Willmott ]

Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back: but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself. [ Burkitt ]

If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus. [ Spurgeon ]

All the other passions condescend at times to accept the inexorable logic of facts; but jealousy looks facts straight in the face, ignores them utterly, and says that she knows a great deal better than they can tell her. [ Helps ]

Thou tell'st me there is murder in my eye: 'tis pretty, sure, and very probable that eyes - that are the frailest and softest things, who shut their coward gates on atomies - should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers! [ William Shakespeare ]

Now, my young friends to whom I am addressing myself, with reference to this habit of reading, I make bold to tell you that it is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. [ Anthony Trollope ]

Granted the ship comes into harbour with shrouds and tackle damaged; the pilot is blameworthy; he has not been all-wise and all-powerful; but to know how blameworthy, tell us first whether his voyage has been round the globe or only to Ramsgate and the Isle of Dogs. [ Carlyle ]

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred, or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue. [ Chesterfield ]

Style! style, why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of his pulse, - in short, as any part of his being which is at least subjected to the action of the will. [ Fenelon ]

In some exquisite critical hints on Eurythmy. Goethe remarks, that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story. And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it. [ Hazlitt ]

It is all very well to tell me that a young man has distinguished himself by a brilliant first speech. He may go on, or he may be satisfied with his first triumph, but show me a young man who has not succeeded at first, and nevertheless has gone on, and I will back that young man to do better than most of those who have succeeded at the first trial. [ Charles James Fox ]

I never had the courage to talk across a long, narrow room I should be at the end of the room facing all the audience. If I attempt to talk across a room I find myself turning this way and that, and thus at alternate periods I have part of the audience behind me. You ought never to have any part of the audience behind you; you never can tell what they are going to do. [ Mark Twain, from his speech Courage ]

I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky. Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

If I might venture to appeal to what is so much out of fashion at Paris, I mean to experience, I should tell you that in my course I have known and, according to my measure, have cooperated with great men; and I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. [ Burke ]

If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the Wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on. [ Charlotte M. Yonge ]

Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know. He started telling his story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought: This story isn't too long. But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, Uh-oh, this story is getting long. But then the story was over, and I said to myself: You know, that story wasn't too long after all. I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chairs of the ladies and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbors sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing. [ Martial ]

I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. You don't have to tell me, I said. I'm off the team, aren't I? Well, said Coach, you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times. It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

This is my seventieth birthday, and I wonder if you all rise to the size of that proposition, realizing all the significance of that phrase, seventieth birthday. The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach--unrebuked. You can tell the world how you got there. It is what they all do. You shall never get tired of telling by what delicate arts and deep moralities you climbed up to that great place. You will explain the process and dwell on the particulars with senile rapture. I have been anxious to explain my own system this long time, and now at last I have the right. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

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tell in Words With Friends™

The word tell is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters tell:

TELL
(30)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word tell

TELL
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TELL
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The 65 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In tell

TELL
(30)
TELL
(24)
TELL
(18)
TELL
(18)
TELL
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TELL
(18)
TELL
(16)
ELL
(15)
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TELL
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LET
(12)
TELL
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LET
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LET
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ELL
(11)
ELL
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ELL
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TELL
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TELL
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ELL
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LET
(10)
EL
(9)
TELL
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ELL
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ELL
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TELL
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EL
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LET
(8)
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TELL
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ELL
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TELL
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EL
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TELL
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ELL
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ELL
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LET
(7)
TELL
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EL
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EL
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LET
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EL
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EL
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LET
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EL
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Words within the letters of tell

2 letter words in tell (1 word)

3 letter words in tell (2 words)

4 letter words in tell (1 word)

tell + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence tell

Words with tell in them (146 words)

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Words that end with tell (5 words)

Word Growth involving tell

Shorter words in tell

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Longer words containing tell

castellation castellations

clitellar postclitellar

clitellar preclitellar

clitellum

constellation constellations subconstellations

constellation subconstellation subconstellations

fortunetell fortuneteller fortunetellers

fortunetell fortunetelling fortunetellings

fortunetell fortunetells

intellect intellects

intellect intellectual antiintellectual

intellect intellectual intellectualisation intellectualisations

intellect intellectual intellectualise intellectualised

intellect intellectual intellectualise intellectualiser intellectualisers

intellect intellectual intellectualise intellectualises

intellect intellectual intellectualising

intellect intellectual intellectualism intellectualisms

intellect intellectual intellectualist intellectualistic intellectualistical intellectualistically

intellect intellectual intellectualist intellectualists

intellect intellectual intellectualities

intellect intellectual intellectuality

intellect intellectual intellectualization deintellectualization deintellectualizations

intellect intellectual intellectualization intellectualizations deintellectualizations

intellect intellectual intellectualize deintellectualize deintellectualized

intellect intellectual intellectualize deintellectualize deintellectualizes

intellect intellectual intellectualize intellectualized deintellectualized

intellect intellectual intellectualize intellectualizer intellectualizers

intellect intellectual intellectualize intellectualizes deintellectualizes

intellect intellectual intellectualize overintellectualize

intellect intellectual intellectualizing deintellectualizing

intellect intellectual intellectually nonintellectually

intellect intellectual intellectually overintellectually

intellect intellectual intellectually pseudointellectually

intellect intellectual intellectualness

intellect intellectual intellectuals nonintellectuals

intellect intellectual intellectuals pseudointellectuals

intellect intellectual intellectuals superintellectuals

intellect intellectual nonintellectual nonintellectually

intellect intellectual nonintellectual nonintellectuals

intellect intellectual overintellectual overintellectualize

intellect intellectual overintellectual overintellectually

intellect intellectual pseudointellectual pseudointellectually

intellect intellectual pseudointellectual pseudointellectuals

intellect intellectual superintellectual superintellectuals

intellect intellectual unintellectual

intelligence counterintelligence

intelligence hyperintelligence

intelligence intelligences superintelligences

intelligence nonintelligence

intelligence superintelligence superintelligences

intelligent hyperintelligent

intelligent intelligently unintelligently

intelligent intelligentsia

intelligent nonintelligent

intelligent superintelligent

intelligent unintelligent unintelligently

intelligibility unintelligibility

intelligible intelligibleness

intelligible unintelligible

intelligibly unintelligibly

mistell mistelling

mistell mistells

pastellist pastellists

patella patellae

patella patellar peripatellar

patella patellar prepatellar

patella patellar suprapatellar

patellectomy

patellofemoral

retell foretell foretellable

retell foretell foreteller foretellers

retell foretell foretelling

retell foretell foretells

retell reteller foreteller foretellers

retell reteller retellers foretellers

retell retelling foretelling

retell retelling retellings

retell retells foretells

satellite microsatellite

satellite satellited

satellite satellites

scutellarein

stellar interstellar

stellar nonstellar

stellate castellate castellated

tarantella tarantellas

tellable foretellable

tellable untellable

teller autoteller autotellers

teller fortuneteller fortunetellers

teller hosteller hostellers

teller reteller foreteller foretellers

teller reteller retellers foretellers

teller storyteller storytellers

teller tellers autotellers

teller tellers fortunetellers

teller tellers hostellers

teller tellers retellers foretellers

teller tellers storytellers

teller tellers tellership tellerships

teller tellers truthtellers

teller truthteller truthtellers

tellies

telling fortunetelling fortunetellings

telling hostelling

telling mistelling

telling retelling foretelling

telling retelling retellings

telling storytelling storytellings

telling tellingly

telling truthtelling

tells fortunetells

tells mistells

tells retells foretells

telltale telltales

tellurate tellurates

telluric

telluride

telluriferous

tellurion tellurions

tellurite tellurites

tellurium telluriums

telly

tortellini tortellinis

vitelli vitelline choriovitelline

vitelli vitelline intervitelline

vitelli vitelline perivitelline

vitellointestinal

vitellus vitelluses