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TELT

4 letters

◐ IN SOME DICTIONARIES
TWL06 ✗ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✗
Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

TELT is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in SOWPODS but not TWL06 and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

TELT root TELL

Word family

TELL 1 TELLS-s 2 TELLING-ing 5 TOLD 1
verb
  1. transitiveTo determine the number, amount, or value of [something].
    • All told, there were over a dozen. Can you tell time on a clock? He had untold wealth.
  2. intransitivetransitiveTo notice, discern. (Roughly, "can tell" means "know" but with a sense of direct perception.)
    • I can tell that you're thrilled.
    • You can tell you've struck a nerve when even the crowd stops laughing.
    • She couldn't tell the words on the chalkboard without her glasses.
  3. intransitivetransitiveTo pick up on a difference. (See tell apart for more.)
    • An expert can tell an original from a forgery.
    • Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance? No, there's no way to tell.
  4. ditransitivetransitiveTo narrate, to recount.
    • I want to tell a story; I want to tell you a story.
  5. ditransitivetransitiveTo convey by speech; to say.
    • Finally, someone told him the truth. He seems to like to tell lies.
  6. transitiveTo instruct or inform.
    • Please tell me how to do it.
  7. transitiveTo order; to direct, to say to someone.
    • Tell him to go away.
  8. transitiveTo use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
  9. childishintransitiveTo inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
    • I saw you steal those sweets! I'm telling!
  10. intransitiveTo reveal information in prose through outright expository statement — contrasted with show.
    • Maria rewrote the section of her novel that talked about Meg and Sage's friendship to have less telling and more showing.
  11. intransitiveTo show, be showing, be revealed.
  12. transitiveTo reveal.
    • Time will tell what became of him.
  13. intransitiveTo have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
    • Sir Gerald was moving slower; his wounds were beginning to tell.
  14. intransitive(of a fact) To support a certain position.
noun
  1. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
  2. informalA giveaway; something that unintentionally reveals or hints at a secret.
  3. archaicThat which is told; a tale or account.
  4. InternetA private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
  5. A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.