servingmaid

noun

"servingmaid" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“servingmaid” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female servant.

Corpus desk

Index EN-servingmaid · servingmaid · English

servingmaid · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "S" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for servingmaid
PropertyValue
Headwordservingmaid
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “servingmaid” sits in English frequency

servingmaidranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

servingmaid is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female servant.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for servingmaid in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Etymologically, the entry records: From serving + maid. The correct English form is servingmaid, spelled S-E-R-V-I-N-G-M-A-I-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    A female servant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how servingmaid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. It is not for the royal son of King Goldemar to make sport of peasant servingmaids;
  2. It was what Lenin, a realistic thinker, had meant when he said that every servingmaid should be capable of running the state.

Etymology

From serving + maid.

Synonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "servingmaid"?
"servingmaid" is spelled S-E-R-V-I-N-G-M-A-I-D.
What does "servingmaid" mean?
As a noun, "servingmaid" means: A female servant.
What is the origin of the word "servingmaid"?
From serving + maid. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list