retable
French, noun/ʁə.tabl/
retable is spelled R-E-T-A-B-L-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 39,210th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Retable is a French masculine noun meaning “retable, reredos” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pièce d’architecture contre laquelle est appuyé l’autel et dont le fond, placé au-dessus de l’autel, contient…”.
What does retable mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineretable, reredos
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pièce d’architecture contre laquelle est appuyé l’autel et dont le fond, placé au-dessus de l’autel, contient un tableau, un bas-relief, une statue, etc. 2. Tableau d’autel.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of retable
- retables plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce retable?
- /ʁə.tabl/
- \ʁə.tabl\
- [ʁə.tabl]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to retable
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is retable in French?
retable appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).