table
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "table", 5-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "table" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "table" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
table is aEnglishnoun. It means: Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. Pronounced /ˈteɪbl̩/. It ranks #958 in English word frequency. Often confused with Tal and take.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | table |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈteɪbl̩/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for table is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈteɪbl̩/. Corpus data places it at rank #958 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 20 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for table, with forms such as "atble", "tabble", and "tabel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Tal", "take", "talk", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English table, tabel, tabil, tabul, from Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula (“board”); also as tæfl, tæfel, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin tabula (“tablet, board, plank, chart”). The sense of “piece of furniture” is… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is table, spelled T-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
- 2Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
- 3Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
- 4Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
- 5Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
- 6Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
- 7Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
- 8Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
- 9A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
- 10A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
- 11A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
- 12A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
- 13A two-dimensional presentation of data.
- 14A two-dimensional presentation of data.
- 15A two-dimensional presentation of data.
- 16A two-dimensional presentation of data.
- 17The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
- 18The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
- 19A flat gravestone supported on pillars.
- 20A writing tablet.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English table, tabel, tabil, tabul, from Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula (“board”); also as tæfl, tæfel, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin tabula (“tablet, board, plank, chart”). The sense of “piece of furniture” is from Old French table, of same Latin origin; Old English used bēod or bord instead for this meaning: see board. Doublet of tabula and tavla.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atble,tabble,tabel,tablle,talbe,tbale,tible,ttable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for table
Misspelling Variants of "table"
Frequency rank: #958 in English
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