service
/ˈsɜː.vɪs/
"service" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“service” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #311. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #311
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An act of being of assistance to someone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-service · service · English
service · rank #311 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #311
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH says
Nearest frequency peer: says (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “service”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- party
party
99,693 corpus weight
- run
run
99,692 corpus weight
- says
says
99,691 corpus weight
- service
service
99,690 corpus weight
- 8
8
99,689 corpus weight
- country
country
99,688 corpus weight
What this shows “service” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | service |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɜː.vɪs/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “service”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around service (IPA /ˈsɜː.vɪs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #311 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 17 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for service, with forms such as "esrvice", "serivce", and "serrvice". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "serving", "survive", "services", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English servise, from Old English serfis, from Old French servise (French service), from the verb servir, from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus (“servant; serf; slave”)… The correct English form is service, spelled S-E-R-V-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1An act of being of assistance to someone.
- 2The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group.
- 3Work as a member of the military.
- 4The practice of providing assistance as economic activity.
- 5Synonym of utility (“commodity provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage”).
- 6A department in a company, organization, or institution.
- 7A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
- 8The military.
- 9A set of dishes or utensils.
- 10The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
- 11A religious rite or ritual.
- 12The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
- 13A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
- 14A musical composition for use in churches.
- 15Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
- 16The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
- 17Access to resources such as hotel rooms and Web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how service appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I say I did him a service by ending our relationship – now he can freely pursue his career.
The Parliament for ever cries more money, / The service of the state demands more money. / Just heaven! of what service is the state?
Etymology
From Middle English servise, from Old English serfis, from Old French servise (French service), from the verb servir, from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus (“servant; serf; slave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo-s (“guardian”), possibly from *ser- (“watch over, protect”). Displaced native Old English þeġnung.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esrvice
- serivce
- serrvice
- servcie
- servicce
- serviec
- servvice
- sevrice
- srevice
- sservice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of service - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).