Synonyms for tell on

Most common

tell · finger · rat · peach · blow the whistle

All synonyms

Verb

Definitions

1. v. 1

   To inform on, to rat out; to tell a person in authority that someone else has done something wrong.

   My sister told on me when I didn't go to school.

Example sentences

• tell Please tell me the closest station to your office.
• finger You want to have a finger in every pie, don't you?
• rat He hollowed out a mountain only to pull out a rat.
• peach The Old English for "peach tree" is "persoctrēow".

By length

3 letters

rat¹

4 letters

tell¹, shit¹, shop¹, stag¹

5 letters

grass¹, peach¹

6 letters

finger², betray², snitch¹, bewray

8 letters

denounce²

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (finger² = 2 syllables).