serjeant
"serjeant" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“serjeant” is uncommon English (frequency #60,454 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,454
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archaic spelling of sergeant.
Corpus desk
Index EN-serjeant · serjeant · English
serjeant · rank #60,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,454
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH SFM
Nearest frequency peer: SFM (+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 “serjeant”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sedge
sedge
39,550 corpus weight
- sensitizati…
sensitization
39,549 corpus weight
- serjeant
serjeant
39,547 corpus weight
- SFM
SFM
39,546 corpus weight
- shafted
shafted
39,545 corpus weight
- shamanic
shamanic
39,544 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “serjeant” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | serjeant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “serjeant” in English
Rare enough to double-check
serjeant is uncommon English at frequency #60,454 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for serjeant in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is serjeant, spelled S-E-R-J-E-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Archaic spelling of sergeant.
- 2Ellipsis of serjeant-at-law.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how serjeant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jones did not think fit to acquaint the serjeant with his design; though he might have done it with great safety, for the halberdier was himself a man of honour, and had killed his man.
I never knew chearfulneſs.—My enjoyments have been the hard fare of a common ſoldier, and the ſeverity of the ſerjeant into the bargain.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).