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Is tattle a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word tattle is a Scrabble US word. The word tattle is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is tattle a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word tattle is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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Is tattle a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word tattle is a Words With Friends word. The word tattle is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

TATTLE,

5-letter words (1 found)

LATTE,

4-letter words (11 found)

ETAT,LATE,LEAT,TAEL,TALE,TATE,TATT,TEAL,TEAT,TELA,TELT,

3-letter words (15 found)

ALE,ALT,ATE,ATT,EAT,ELT,ETA,LAT,LEA,LET,TAE,TAT,TEA,TEL,TET,

2-letter words (9 found)

AE,AL,AT,EA,EL,ET,LA,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 38 words from tattle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tattle

tattle

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tatelen, tateren (“to babble, chatter”) (modern Dutch tatelen, tateren (“to talk, chatter”)), originally imitative. The word is cognate with Saterland Frisian tätelje (“to talk nonsense, babble”), Middle Low German tāteren, tadderen (“to babble, chatter”) (whence modern German Low German tatern (“to chatter”)), Low German tateln, täteln (“to cackle, gabble”). Compare also Middle English dadel, dadull (“tattling, gossip”), and its alteration twaddle.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtæt(ə)l/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtætl̩/, [-æɾl̩]
  • Rhymes: -ætəl
  • Hyphenation: tat‧tle

Verb

tattle (third-person singular simple present tattles, present participle tattling, simple past and past participle tattled)

  1. (intransitive) To chatter; to gossip.
  3. (intransitive, Canada, US, derogatory) Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing; to tell on somebody. [from late 15th c.]
  4. (intransitive, obsolete) To speak like a baby or young child; to babble, to prattle; to speak haltingly; to stutter.

Synonyms

  • (to chatter): see Thesaurus:prattle
  • (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing): see Thesaurus:rat out

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Noun

tattle (countable and uncountable, plural tattles)

  1. (countable) A tattletale.
  2. (countable, Canada, US, derogatory) Often said of children: a piece of incriminating information or an account of wrongdoing that is said about another person.
  3. (uncountable) Idle talk; gossip; (countable) an instance of such talk or gossip.

Synonyms

  • (tattletale): telltale tit; see Thesaurus:informant or Thesaurus:gossiper
  • (idle talk): see Thesaurus:tattle or Thesaurus:chatter

Translations

See also

  • snitches get stitches
  • twattle

References

Further reading

  • gossip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Source: wiktionary.org