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tables

ta·bles/ˈteɪbl̩z/noun, verb

tables is spelled T-A-B-L-E-S: 6 letters and 2 syllables (ta·bles). It appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,365th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tables means “Backgammon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in tables?

Letters6: T-A-B-L-E-S
Syllables2: ta·bles
In writing19 times per million words; the 4,365th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is tables?

Tables appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,365th 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 tables?

  • /ˈteɪbl̩z/

Tables has 2 syllables, split ta·bles in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-tables.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with tables?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tables.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: stable.

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).

What does tables mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Backgammon.

  2. 2

    The halves or quarters of a backgammon board.

  3. 3

    Any backgammon-like board game, played on a board with two rows of 12 vertical markings called "points".

  4. 4

    plural of table (a form of table)

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular simple present indicative of table (a form of table)

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

How do you abbreviate tables?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of tables: tbls..

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

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