all told
"all-told" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“all told” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - With everything included, counted, or summed; in total.
Corpus desk
Index EN-all-told · all told · English
all told · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | all told |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “all told” in English
Rare enough to double-check
all told is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "With everything included, counted, or summed; in total.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for all told in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From all + told (“counted”), from the original, now archaic sense [one] of tell. The correct English form is all told, spelled A-L-L- -T-O-L-D.
Definition
- 1With everything included, counted, or summed; in total.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how all told appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I think they had over 300 people there, all told.
Etymology
From all + told (“counted”), from the original, now archaic sense [one] of tell.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.