Adjectives that collocate with TALE (Sorted by collocation rank)
fairy (98), tall (67), old (63), folk (61), sad (59), strange (58), amazing (51), romantic (50), horror (49), extraordinary (49), magical (48), chilling (45), heroic (45), curious (45), traditional (44), incredible (43), morality (41), long (41), fantastic (40), funny (40), rags-to-riches (39), sorry (38), bizarre (37), mysterious (35), macabre (35), moral (34), gruesome (30), hair-raising (30), humorous (29), spooky (27), lurid (26), tawdry (23), marvellous (20), unlikely (20), awful (18), terrible (17), fanciful (13), childhood (9), witty (7), spicy (6), far-fetched (2),
Last edited Dec 06, 2011
