# tell vs told

> French confusable word pair

## The two words

### tell
*noun · IPA \tɛl\ · frequency rank #17,571*
Terre labourable, en Algérie.

### told
*verb · IPA \təʊld\ · frequency rank #45,349*
Prétérit de tell.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/fr/vs/tell-vs-told