# Serbia

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈsɜː.bi.ə/ · frequency rank #11,113

## Definitions
1. A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Serbia. Capital and largest city: Belgrade. Part of Yugoslavia until 1992, then part of Serbia and Montenegro until 2006.
2. A geographic region of Southeast Europe.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin Serbia, equivalent to modern Serb + -ia.

## Easily confused with
- **Seri** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/serbia-vs-seri)
- **Syria** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/serbia-vs-syria)
- **serie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/serbia-vs-serie)
- **serra** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/serbia-vs-serra)
- **serif** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/serbia-vs-serif)
- **serial** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/serbia-vs-serial)
- **serena** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/serbia-vs-serena)
- **Serbian** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/serbia-vs-serbian)
- **Sera** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sera-vs-serbia)
- **Serb** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/serb-vs-serbia)
- **sepia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sepia-vs-serbia)

## Common misspellings (8)
`esrbia`, `sebria`, `serbai`, `serbbia`, `seriba`, `serrbia`, `srebia`, `sserbia`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/serbia