foodservice
"foodservice" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foodservice” is uncommon English (frequency #50,516 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,516
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The business of providing food and related services.
Corpus desk
Index EN-foodservice · foodservice · English
foodservice · rank #50,516 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,516
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH foto
Nearest frequency peer: foto (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “foodservice”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- festivity
festivity
49,490 corpus weight
- FFP
FFP
49,489 corpus weight
- fining
fining
49,488 corpus weight
- flatmate
flatmate
49,487 corpus weight
- foodservice
foodservice
49,485 corpus weight
- foto
foto
49,484 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “foodservice” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foodservice |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #50,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “foodservice” in English
Rare enough to double-check
foodservice is uncommon English at frequency #50,516 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The business of providing food and related services.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for foodservice, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From food + service. The correct English form is foodservice, spelled F-O-O-D-S-E-R-V-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1The business of providing food and related services.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how foodservice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Employee turnover tends to be high in the foodservice industry.
AMERICA IS TURNING INTO A NATION OF CHEESEHEADS. PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION nearly tripled in the last 30 years, from 11 pounds to 31 pounds, with roughly 60 percent of that gain coming through foodservice, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Etymology
From food + service.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).