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table

French, noun

table is spelled T-A-B-L-E (5 letters) and appears 83 times per million words in written French, the 1,003rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Table is a French feminine noun meaning “table (furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of tabler. With an accent, tablé is a different word: “past participle of tabler”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Surface plane de bois, de pierre, de marbre, etc., posée sur un ou plusieurs pieds et qui sert à divers…”.

What does table mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininetable (furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses)

    Pourquoi as-tu laissé ces livres sur la table ?

  2. 2

    feminineflat surface atop various objects

  3. 3

    feminineflat part of a cut or carved object

  4. 4

    femininetable of a stringed instrument

  5. 5

    femininematrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns

  6. 6

    femininesystematic list of content

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as tablé
  1. 1

    past participle of tabler

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Surface plane de bois, de pierre, de marbre, etc., posée sur un ou plusieurs pieds et qui sert à divers usages. 2. Table à manger, et surtout celle servie, couverte de mets. 3. Restaurant. 4. Ce que l’on sert à table, cuisine, bonne chère, mets, gastronomie.

noun: 1. Sainte Table.

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 table

  • tables plural
  • tablée feminine
  • tablés masculine plural
  • tablées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to table

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is table in French?

table appears 83 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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