table
ta·ble[ˈtʰeɪb(ə)ɫ]noun, verb
table is spelled T-A-B-L-E, 2 syllables: ta·ble. The wrong spelling people search most is tabel: about 420 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 56 of all searches for the word. Table is a noun meaning “An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs”. The plural of table is tables.
How many letters and syllables are in table?
| Letters | 5: T-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: ta·ble |
| In writing | 112 times per million words; the 951st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, tabel, about 420 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell table?
Table is spelled T-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 56 of the searches for table in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is table?
Table appears 112 times per million words in written English, the 951st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce table?
- /ˈteɪbl̩/
- UK [ˈt(ʰ)eɪbɫ̩]
- US [ˈtʰeɪb(ə)ɫ]
Table has 2 syllables, split ta·ble in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-table.ogg, En-us-table.ogg, En-au-table.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with table?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as table.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: bleat, belta.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of table
- tables plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- tyebble
- tabling participle, present
- tabled participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does table mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
Set that dish on the table over there, please.
- 2
A flat tray which can be used as a table.
- 3
A supply of food or entertainment.
The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.
- 4
A booth or display at an event such as an exposition or fair.
- 5
A service of Holy Communion.
- 6
The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
- 7
One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into an inner and outer table.
- 8
The game of backgammon, or any of several related games.
verb
- 1
To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
to table fines
- 2
archaicTo supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.
'April 13 1638, Henry Wotton, letter to John Milton At Siena I was tabled in the house of one Alberto Scipioni
- 3
obsoleteTo delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict.
- 4
To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
- 5
USTo remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).
The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will not be discussing it until later.
- 6
To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
- 7
obsoleteTo join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.
- 8
To put on a table.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate table?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of table: tbl..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Table in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | table , tableau , mettre la table |
| German | Tisch , Tabelle, Spiegel |
| Portuguese | mesa , tabela , servir , propor , adiar , tabular |
| Spanish | mesa, expremijo, entremijo, entremiso , tabla , tablas |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does table come from?
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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).