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"tell" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often recount (7 letters).
Definitions
To inform, distinguish, count, or order someone to do something.
Word origin
From Middle English tellen (“to count, tell”), from Old English tellan (“to count, tell”), from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną, *talzijaną (“to count, enumerate”), from Proto-Germanic *talą, *talō (“number, counting”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation, fraud”).
Used in a sentence
“All told, there were over a dozen. Can you tell time on a clock? He had untold wealth.”
“And in his lap a masse of coyne he told, And turned vpsidowne, to feede his eye A couetous desire with his huge threasury.”
“Well fare the Arabians, who so richly pay The things they traffic for with wedge of gold, Whereof a man may easily in a day Tell that which may maintain him all his life.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Say to someone”4 letters
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