servingman
"servingman" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“servingman” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male servant.
Corpus desk
Index EN-servingman · servingman · English
servingman · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | servingman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “servingman” in English
Rare enough to double-check
servingman is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A male servant.".
servingman has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English servyng man; equivalent to serving + -man. The correct English form is servingman, spelled S-E-R-V-I-N-G-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1A male servant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how servingman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[N]ow my whole charge conſiſts of Ancients, Corporals, Lieutenants, gentlemen of companies: ſlaues as ragged as Lazarus in the painted cloth, where the gluttons dogs licked his ſores, and ſuch as indeed were neuer ſouldiours, but diſcarded, vniuſt ſeruingmen, yonger ſonnes to yonger brothers, reuolted tapſters, and Oſtlers, tradefalne, the cankers of a ca…
What, ſhall Ioan haue a Seruingman: is her father ſo madd as he wyll marrie her to a Seruingman: What to a Seruingman ſayes one: To a Seruingman ſayes another: he neyther hath any thyng, nor can earne any thyng.
Etymology
From Middle English servyng man; equivalent to serving + -man.
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.