servingwoman
"servingwoman" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“servingwoman” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female servant.
Corpus desk
Index EN-servingwoman · servingwoman · English
servingwoman · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | servingwoman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “servingwoman” in English
Rare enough to double-check
servingwoman is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female servant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for servingwoman in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English servynge womman, servyng woman; equivalent to serving + -woman. The correct English form is servingwoman, spelled S-E-R-V-I-N-G-W-O-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1A female servant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how servingwoman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; and Cascorro courting Eulalia, the servingwoman, who was the very image of domesticity as she sat sewing seed pearls on a pair of gray gloves.
Sisly Milk-pail, servingwoman to Frankford.
Etymology
From Middle English servynge womman, servyng woman; equivalent to serving + -woman.
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.