servicing
"servicing" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“servicing” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #16,344. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,344
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of performing maintenance on something.
Corpus desk
Index EN-servicing · servicing · English
servicing · rank #16,344 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #16,344
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sectional
Nearest frequency peer: sectional (-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 “servicing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- screwing
screwing
83,660 corpus weight
- seam
seam
83,659 corpus weight
- sectional
sectional
83,658 corpus weight
- servicing
servicing
83,657 corpus weight
- shrinking
shrinking
83,656 corpus weight
- simulate
simulate
83,655 corpus weight
What this shows “servicing” 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 | servicing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,344 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “servicing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around servicing, anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,344 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of performing maintenance on something.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for servicing, with forms such as "esrvicing", "serivcing", and "serrvicing". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "serving", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is servicing, spelled S-E-R-V-I-C-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of performing maintenance on something.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how servicing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
How many servicings has your car had this year?
A depot for the maintenance and servicing of diesel locomotives on the Great Eastern line is being provided at Ipswich by the conversion of the steam motive power depot, which was rebuilt in 1954, with the requirements of diesel traction in mind.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esrvicing
- serivcing
- serrvicing
- servciing
- serviccing
- servicign
- servicingg
- servicinng
- servicnig
- serviicng
- servvicing
- sevricing
- srevicing
- sservicing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of servicing - 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 "servicing", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).