tableland

Other forms of tableland

plural

tablelands·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tableland

What does tableland mean?

tableland means "a relatively flat highland".

How many syllables are in tableland?

tableland has 3 syllables: ta-ble-land. The stress falls on "ta".

What is another word for tableland?

Close synonyms include plateau. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tableland a common word?

tableland is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.