servingwoman

noun

"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.

Key facts for servingwoman
PropertyValue
Headwordservingwoman
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “servingwoman” in English

servingwomanranks 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

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

  1. 1
    A female servant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. […]; 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.
  2. Sisly Milk-pail, servingwoman to Frankford.

Etymology

From Middle English servynge womman, servyng woman; equivalent to serving + -woman.

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 "servingwoman"?
"servingwoman" is spelled S-E-R-V-I-N-G-W-O-M-A-N.
What does "servingwoman" mean?
As a noun, "servingwoman" means: A female servant.
What is the origin of the word "servingwoman"?
From Middle English servynge womman, servyng woman; equivalent to serving + -woman. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list