Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fish tale

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English

Syllables: fish -tale
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of fish story (“tall tale”).

Example Sentences

"He's a hunter, took a week off, all loaded down with guns and the like, and he refuses to tell even a "fish" tale about it. Mr. William Mills has returned to the place from whence he came. We are told he landed a berth with the[…]"
"She felt in her heart that Gary was telling a fish tale about the finger marks, but then again, there was the possibility he was telling the truth. She finally decided that Christopher had been abused once or twice, but not on a[…]"
""Sure enough, she and Major Dewart came tromping in, with a fish tale about a flat tire.""

Inflected Forms

fish tales (plural)

Synonyms

fish story

Questions

What does fish tale mean?: Synonym of fish story (“tall tale”).

How to pronounce fish tale

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