A frequency table is a table listing each:

• item in a set and the number of times each item occurs
• event in an experiment and the number of times each event occurs.

A frequency table is also sometimes called a frequency distribution.

The illustration below shows a set of doughnuts.

A frequency table representing this set is shown below.

The illustration below shows the result of an experiment consisting of throwing a die twenty times.

A frequency table representing this experiment is shown below.