tablet

Other forms of tablet

plural

tablets·

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 tablet

What does tablet mean?

tablet means "a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tablet?

tablet has 2 syllables: tab-let. The stress falls on "tab". In IPA it is /ˈtæblət/.

What is another word for tablet?

Close synonyms include pad, pad of paper, pill, lozenge, tab. 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 tablet a common word?

tablet is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.