tell me about it
"tell-me-about-it" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tell me about it” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Used to express agreement and sympathy with the previous speaker’s statement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tell me about it |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tell me about it” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tell me about it is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Used to express agreement and sympathy with the previous speaker’s statement.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tell me about it, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is tell me about it, spelled T-E-L-L- -M-E- -A-B-O-U-T- -I-T.
Definition
- 1Used to express agreement and sympathy with the previous speaker’s statement.
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.
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Using “tell me about it”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-E-L-L- -M-E- -A-B-O-U-T- -I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.