How to spell table

hear itta·ble/'teɪbəl/nounStarter

What it means: A flat surface for eating or working.

In a sentence: The cat jumped up on the table.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as tablle or taible.

Same family: mesa, plateau, tableland, cliff, escarpment. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: This geographical sense of "table" comes from the idea of a flat surface, like a dining table, and is related to Old French and Latin words for "board" or "plank." Geologists sometimes describe flat-topped mountains and plateaus as "table mountains" because their shape looks like a table standing above the land around it.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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