Synonyms for tattle
- verb
- noun
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Blab
tell, blab, tell tales, peach, babble, talk, sing, blab out, divulge, chat, blow the whistle, spill the beans, grass, snitch, betray, spill
2. Prattle
prattle, palaver, twaddle, narc, prate, blabber, jabber, clack, blather, piffle, gabble, mander, gibber, natter, clatter, balderdash
Other
rat out slang
Noun
2. Gossip
gossip, chatter, tittle-tattle, tell-tale-tit, tale, gossipry, gossiper, rumor US, rumour UK
Other
Definitions
- v. 1
To chatter; to gossip.
- v. 2
Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing in an annoying fashion, usually to a person in a position of authority over the accused person; to tell on somebody.
- n. 1
A tattletale.
- n. 2
Often said of children: a piece of incriminating information or an account of wrongdoing that is said about another person.
Related words
- Word family
- tattleware
- Phrases
- tattle on
- Is a kind of
- chatter hearsay
Example sentences
- blab I blab about the boy all the time.
By length
- 4 letters
- tell1, talk1, chat1, sing1, tale1, narc1, blab1
- 5 letters
- grass1, peach1, spill1, rumor2, clack1, prate
- 6 letters
- gossip2, betray2, rumour2, snitch1, babble2, jabber, mander2, natter2, piffle, gibber, gabble
- 7 letters
- telling2, singing2, chatter2, divulge2, clatter2, prattle2, palaver, blather2, twaddle2, blabber2
- 8 letters
- gossiper3, gossipry
- 9 letters
- informant3
- 10 letters
- balderdash3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (rumor2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- cafarder