Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“tablets” is a form of

tablet

/ˈtæblət/ noun, verb

Forms tablets tableting tabletting tableted tabletted

  1. noun A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.
  2. noun (religion) A short scripture written by the founders of the Baháʼí Faith.
  3. noun A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance in solid form. “Many people take vitamin tablets as a food supplement.”
  4. noun A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.
  5. noun (computing) A graphics tablet.
  6. noun (computing) A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.
  7. noun (Scotland) A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a grainer texture than fudge.
  8. noun (rail transport) A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.
  9. verb (transitive) To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.

Synonyms

pad pad of paper pill lozenge tab

Etymology

From Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete (Modern French tablette), diminutive of table (“table”). Compare English table, -et.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small table or flat surface.
  2. noun A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.

Etymology [F. tablette, dim. of table. See Table.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “tablet”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “tablet” (best matches first).