maidservant
"maidservant" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“maidservant” is uncommon English (frequency #86,483 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,483
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female servant; a maid.
Corpus desk
Index EN-maidservant · maidservant · English
maidservant · rank #86,483 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,483
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH maghrib
Nearest frequency peer: maghrib (-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 “maidservant”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Maggy
Maggy
13,520 corpus weight
- maghrib
maghrib
13,519 corpus weight
- maidservant
maidservant
13,518 corpus weight
- Majumdar
Majumdar
13,517 corpus weight
- makar
makar
13,516 corpus weight
- malm
malm
13,515 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “maidservant” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maidservant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #86,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “maidservant” in English
Rare enough to double-check
maidservant is uncommon English at frequency #86,483 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female servant; a maid.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for maidservant, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English maide servant; equivalent to maid + servant. The correct English form is maidservant, spelled M-A-I-D-S-E-R-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1A female servant; a maid.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maidservant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sixe dayes thou ſhalt labour, and doe all thy worke. / But the ſeuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou ſhalt not doe any worke, thou, nor thy ſonne, nor thy daughter, nor thy man ſeruant, nor thy maid ſeruant, nor thine oxe, nor thine aſſe, nor any of thy cattel, nor thy ſtranger that is within thy gates, that thy man ſeruant and thy ma…
"A great people were they. They conquered till none were left to conquer, and then they dwelt at ease within their rocky mountain walls, with their man servants and their maid servants, their minstrels, their sculptors, and their concubines, and traded and quarrelled, and ate and hunted and slept and made merry till their time came."
Etymology
From Middle English maide servant; equivalent to maid + servant.
This word in other languages
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).