services
/ˈsɜː.vɪ.sɪz/
"services" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“services” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #494. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #494
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed and consists of an action or work.
Corpus desk
Index EN-services · services · English
services · rank #494 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #494
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH myself
Nearest frequency peer: myself (-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 “services”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- heart
heart
99,510 corpus weight
- minutes
minutes
99,509 corpus weight
- myself
myself
99,508 corpus weight
- services
services
99,507 corpus weight
- yourself
yourself
99,505 corpus weight
- ACT
ACT
99,504 corpus weight
What this shows “services” 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 | services |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɜː.vɪ.sɪz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “services”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around services (IPA /ˈsɜː.vɪ.sɪz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #494 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for services, with forms such as "esrvices", "serivces", and "serrvices". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "series", "serves", "service", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is services, spelled S-E-R-V-I-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed and consists of an action or work.
- 2plural of service
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how services appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The acts of Congress establishing new mail routes and requiring more expensive services on others and the increasing wants of the country have for three years past carried the expenditures something beyond the accruing revenues, the excess having been met until the past year by the surplus which had previously accumulated.
To establish a system of priorities and allocations for materials and facilities, authorize the requisitioning thereof, provide financial assistance for expansion of productive capacity and supply, provide for price and wage stabilization, provide for the settlement of labor disputes, strengthen controls over credit, and by these measures facilitate the p…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esrvices
- serivces
- serrvices
- servcies
- servicces
- servicess
- servicse
- serviecs
- servvices
- sevrices
- srevices
- sservices
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of services - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "services", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).