table

/\tabl\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,013

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

table is aFrenchnoun. It means: Surface plane de bois, de pierre, de marbre, etc., posée sur un ou plusieurs pieds et qui sert à divers usages. Pronounced \tabl\. It ranks #1,013 in French word frequency. Often confused with tal and tae.

Key facts for table
PropertyValue
Headwordtable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tabl\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,013
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of table in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for table is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,013 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for table, with forms such as "atble", "tabble", and "tabel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tal", "tae", "taxe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is table, spelled T-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Surface plane de bois, de pierre, de marbre, etc., posée sur un ou plusieurs pieds et qui sert à divers usages.
  2. 2
    Table à manger, et surtout celle servie, couverte de mets.
  3. 3
    Restaurant.
  4. 4
    Ce que l’on sert à table, cuisine, bonne chère, mets, gastronomie.
  5. 5
    Partie supérieure présentant une surface plane de certains objets.
  6. 6
    Châssis de madriers bien joints sur lesquels on applique le tapis.
  7. 7
    Masse de quelque chose qui est d’une épaisseur notablement moindre à ses autres dimensions.
  8. 8
    Partie d’une machine à papier destinée à étaler la pâte à papier et l’égoutter pour former la feuille de papier, composée d’une toile métallique ou de plastique, d’une caisse de tête, de pontuseaux d’égouttage, d’un rouleau vergeur, de caisses aspirantes, d'un dispositif de recoupe de feuille par jets d'eau, d’un cylindre aspirant et de dispositifs de lavage constitués de rinceurs.
  9. 9
    Les deux lames osseuses qui revêtent les os du crâne.
  10. 10
    Lame, plaque ou planche de cuivre, d’argent ou de tout autre matériau plate et unie, sur laquelle on peut écrire, graver, peindre, etc.
  11. 11
    Index permettant de trouver facilement les matières ou les mots qui sont dans un ouvrage.
  12. 12
    Tableau d’informations ordonnées très courantes avant l’invention de la calculette et de l’ordinateur.
  13. 13
    Partie d’une base de données relationnelle, constituée de tuples décrivant chacun une occurrence d’un objet.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: atble,tabble,tabel,tablle,talbe,tbale,ttable

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for table

Misspelling Variants of "table"

atble5tabble6tabel5tablle6talbe5tbale5ttable6
Misspelling Variants of "table"

Frequency rank: #1,013 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "table"?
"table" is spelled T-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tabl\.
What does "table" mean?
As a noun, "table" means: Surface plane de bois, de pierre, de marbre, etc., posée sur un ou plusieurs pieds et qui sert à divers usages.
What words are commonly confused with "table"?
"table" is commonly confused with "tal", "tae", "taxe". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "table"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "table" is \tabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "table" come from?
"table" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.