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say it: tayl
tale is a noun meaning "a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program". It is pronounced /ˈteɪl/ — tayl. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
“his narrative was interesting”
“Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children”
a trivial lie
“he told a fib about eating his spinach”
“how can I stop my child from telling stories?”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tale come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.