Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tell-worthy

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English

Syllables: tel-l--wor-thy
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Worthy to be told

Example Sentences

"For a narrative to be tell-worthy, it should be about the breach of a human plight, a deviation of a canonical script. Suicide and intentional pursuit of death are tell-worthy events."
"[...] based on the assumption that the precipitating conditions and state of being 'split in pieces' result in a tell-worthy emotional account."
"But it is only at more advanced levels that it begins to be retooled at story openings in the function of a disjunct marker (Jefferson 1978) which announces that something different is coming up (i.e., the launching of a tell-worthy story) or as part of a yes-but turn architecture (Pomerantz 1984) during prefatory talk that functions to push an upcoming disagreement back into the turn-in-progress."

Etymology

From tell + -worthy.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: tell

Inflected Forms

more tell-worthy (comparative) most tell-worthy (superlative)

Questions

What does tell-worthy mean?: Worthy to be told
Where does tell-worthy come from?: From tell + -worthy.

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