TABLE
Yes, TABLE was the Wordle answer on December 19, 2023 (Wordle #913).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈteɪbl̩/[ˈt(ʰ)eɪbɫ̩][ˈtʰeɪb(ə)ɫ]
- Noun
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Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
“Set that dish on the table over there, please.”
- Noun
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A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
- Verb
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To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
“to table fines”
- Verb
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To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
Alternative forms: tyebble
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English table, tabel, tabil, tabul, from Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula (“board”); also as tæfl, tæfel, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin tabula (“tablet, board, plank, chart”). The sense of “piece of furniture” is from Old French table, of same Latin origin; Old English used bēod or bord instead for this meaning: see board. Doublet of tabula and tavla.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it TAYBUHL.
Rhymes with CABLE LABEL FABLE GABLE SABLE
Related meanings
Synonyms BOARD mesa postpone DEFER REMIT
In a sentence
This is not a table.
He was at the table.
Use TABLE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: December 19, 2023 (#913).
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See what the public sample says →TABLE in Connections
12 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1211
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TABLE appeared in TABLE TENNIS NEEDS (green group).
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· Puzzle #833
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TABLE appeared in RESTAURANT SEATING OPTIONS (blue group).
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· Puzzle #730
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TABLE appeared in THINGS YOU CAN INSERT IN A DOCUMENT (green group).
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· Puzzle #580
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TABLE appeared in DISPLAY OF ROWS AND COLUMNS (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #578
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TABLE appeared in VENDOR’S SPOT AT A MARKET (yellow group).
How TABLE performs as a guess
TABLE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 87.8% of games, misses completely in 12.2%, and leaves about 103 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,410 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe TABLE used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How TABLE performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches TABLE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
TABLE can come back 129 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for TABLE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing TABLE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to TABLE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing TABLE:
Research on TABLE
Game-tree analysis and word research for TABLE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with TABLE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #205 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.71 guesses at best and is rank #54 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.61; proven optimal play reaches 3.60. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.
These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- TABLE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 112 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 91 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.7 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).