tablet
/ˈtæblət/noun, verb
tablet is spelled T-A-B-L-E-T: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,565th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tablet means “A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tablet is tablets.
How many letters and syllables are in tablet?
| Letters | 6: T-A-B-L-E-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,565th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 tablet?
Tablet appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,565th 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 tablet?
- /ˈtæblət/
Tablet has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-tablet.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-tablet.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with tablet?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tablet.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: battle, battel.
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 tablet
- tablets plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- tableting participle, present
- tabletting participle, present
- tableted participle, past
- tabletted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tablet mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.
- 2
A short scripture written by the founders of the Baháʼí Faith.
- 3
A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance in solid form.
Many people take vitamin tablets as a food supplement.
- 4
A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.
- 5
A graphics tablet.
- 6
A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.
- 7
ScotlandA confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a grainer texture than fudge.
- 8
A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.
verb
- 1
To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tablet in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense slab of clay:
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 tablet come from?
From Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete (Modern French tablette), diminutive of table (“table”). Compare English table, -et.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).