# table

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈteɪbl̩/ · frequency rank #958

## Definitions
1. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
2. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
3. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
4. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
5. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
6. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
7. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
8. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
9. A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
10. A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
11. A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
12. A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
13. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
14. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
15. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
16. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
17. The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
18. The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
19. A flat gravestone supported on pillars.
20. A 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.

## Easily confused with
- **Tal** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-tal)
- **take** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-take)
- **talk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-talk)
- **tall** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-tall)
- **tape** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-tape)
- **tube** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-tube)
- **tail** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-tail)
- **tale** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-tale)
- **tate** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-tate)
- **tile** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-tile)
- **tame** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-tame)
- **TAFE** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-tafe)
- **tobe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-tobe)
- **title** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-title)
- **taste** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-taste)
- **tales** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-tales)
- **tails** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-tails)
- **tally** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-tally)
- **taboo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-taboo)
- **Tahoe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/table-vs-tahoe)

## Common misspellings (8)
`atble`, `tabble`, `tabel`, `tablle`, `talbe`, `tbale`, `tible`, `ttable`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/table