tables

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The verdict

“tables” is uncommon German (frequency #70,864 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,864
frequency rank, German
2,684
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs table

Corpus desk

Index DE-tables · tables · German

tables · rank #70,864 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,864
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,684
  • PHOTO-FINISH Tabellenzweit…

Nearest frequency peer: Tabellenzweiten (-1 rank slots)

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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „tables“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „tables“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for tables
PropertyValue
Headwordtables
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters6
Frequency rank#70,864
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „tables“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.tablesfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Tabellenzweiten“ (#70,863), „Tagespolitik“ (#70,865), „Südhang“ (#70,862). Unter 2,684 „T“-Lemmata liegt „tables“ bei #70,864. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tables is uncommon German at frequency #70,864 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs table".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tables, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is tables, spelled T-A-B-L-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plural des Substantivs table

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tables"?
"tables" is spelled T-A-B-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "tables" mean?
As a noun, "tables" means: Plural des Substantivs table
How do you pronounce "tables"?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tables", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

surren#70,858titelt#70,881Treter#70,889twelve#70,900

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list