tally

1. 1.

   a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely

   “the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th”

   “their first tally came in the 3rd inning”

   Synonymsrun

   Broaderscore

   Narrowerearned rununearned runrun batted in
2. 2.

   a bill for an amount due

   Synonymsreckoning

   Broaderbill
3. 3.

   the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order

   “the counting continued for several hours”

   Synonymscountcountingnumerationenumerationreckoning

   Broaderinvestigation

   Narrowerblood countcensuscountdown

Other forms of tally

plural

tallies·

past tense or participle

tallied

present participle

tallying·

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.

Questions about tally

What does tally mean?

tally means "be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tally?

tally has 2 syllables: tal-ly. The stress falls on "tal". In IPA it is /ˈtæli/.

What is another word for tally?

Close synonyms include match, fit, correspond, check, jibe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tally a common word?

tally is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.