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servomotor

noun

servomotor is spelled S-E-R-V-O-M-O-T-O-R: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, servomotor means “An electric motor in a servomechanism, especially one which incorporates feedback so it accurately positions the device” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of servomotor is servomotors.

How many letters and syllables are in servomotor?

Letters10: S-E-R-V-O-M-O-T-O-R
In writingabout once in every 50 million words; the 220,118th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is servomotor?

Servomotor appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of servomotor

  • servomotors plural
  • servo motor
  • servo-motor

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does servomotor mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An electric motor in a servomechanism, especially one which incorporates feedback so it accurately positions the device.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Servomotor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Frenchservomoteur
GermanServomotor
Spanishservomotor

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does servomotor come from?

From French servo-moteur, from Latin servus (“slave”) + motor (“mover”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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