manservant
/ˈmænˌsɜː(ɹ)vənt/
"manservant" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“manservant” is uncommon English (frequency #71,679 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,679
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male servant.
Corpus desk
Index EN-manservant · manservant · English
manservant · rank #71,679 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,679
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Markovic
Nearest frequency peer: Markovic (+2 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 “manservant”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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lymphoblastic
28,330 corpus weight
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Madhav
28,327 corpus weight
- manservant
manservant
28,322 corpus weight
- Markovic
Markovic
28,320 corpus weight
- marra
marra
28,319 corpus weight
- marvellously
marvellously
28,317 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “manservant” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manservant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmænˌsɜː(ɹ)vənt/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “manservant” in English
Rare enough to double-check
manservant is uncommon English at frequency #71,679 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmænˌsɜː(ɹ)vənt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A male servant.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for manservant, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English man servant, man servaunt; equivalent to man + servant. The correct English form is manservant, spelled M-A-N-S-E-R-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1A male servant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how manservant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I asked my manservant to attend to the washing and cleaning.
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 maid…
Etymology
From Middle English man servant, man servaunt; equivalent to man + servant.
Synonyms
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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