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tableland

noun

tableland is spelled T-A-B-L-E-L-A-N-D: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 95,993rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tableland means “A relatively flat region of elevated terrain, particularly in reference to surrounding terrain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tableland is tablelands.

How many letters and syllables are in tableland?

Letters9: T-A-B-L-E-L-A-N-D
In writingabout once in every 10 million words; the 95,993rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is tableland?

Tableland appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 95,993rd 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 tableland?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-tableland.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of tableland

  • tablelands plural
  • table land
  • table-land

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does tableland mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A relatively flat region of elevated terrain, particularly in reference to surrounding terrain.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Tableland in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense flat region of terrain:

LanguageWords
Frenchplateau
GermanTafelland
Portuguesechapada

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 tableland come from?

From table + land.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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