tableware
noun
tableware is spelled T-A-B-L-E-W-A-R-E. The wrong spelling people search most is tablewear: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 46 of all searches for the word. Tableware is a noun meaning “The cutlery, crockery and glassware used in setting a table for a meal”. The plural of tableware is tablewares.
How do you spell tableware?
Tableware is spelled T-A-B-L-E-W-A-R-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 46 of the searches for tableware 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.
What does tableware mean?
noun
- 1
The cutlery, crockery and glassware used in setting a table for a meal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce tableware?
Tableware has 3 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-tableware.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of tableware
- tablewares plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tableware?
Tableware appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 51,738th 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).
Tableware in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense cutlery, crockery and glassware:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vaisselle, couvert |
| German | Geschirr, Essgeschirr, Tafelgerät |
| Portuguese | serviço de mesa, utensílios de mesa |
| Spanish | vajilla, cubertería |
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 tableware come from?
From table + -ware.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).