tattle

1. 1.

   disclosing information or giving evidence about another

   Synonymssingingtelling

   Broaderdisclosure

Other forms of tattle

plural

tattles·

past tense

tattled·

present participle

tattling·

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 tattle

What does tattle mean?

tattle means "speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tattle?

tattle has 2 syllables: tat-tle. The stress falls on "tat". In IPA it is /ˈtætəl/.

What is another word for tattle?

Close synonyms include chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle. 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 tattle a common word?

tattle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.