tabulation
French, noun\ta.by.la.sjɔ̃\
tabulation is spelled T-A-B-U-L-A-T-I-O-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 118,416th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tabulation is a French feminine noun meaning “tab (a space character that extends to the next column)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mise en forme d'un tableau, d'une table de chiffres, de données, etc”.
What does tabulation mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetab (a space character that extends to the next column)
- 2
femininetabulation
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mise en forme d'un tableau, d'une table de chiffres, de données, etc. 2. Caractère permettant d’aligner visuellement des données le long de colonnes. 3. Nom d’une touche de clavier d’ordinateur permettant principalement d’insérer un caractère de tabulation, mais également de naviguer entre différents éléments d’interface.
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 tabulation
- tabulations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tabulation?
- \ta.by.la.sjɔ̃\
- [t̪a.by.l̪a.sjɔ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tabulation
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tabulation in French?
tabulation appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).