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slavey

UK /ˈsleɪvi/noun

slavey is spelled S-L-A-V-E-Y: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, slavey means “A male servant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of slavey is slaveys or slavies.

How many letters and syllables are in slavey?

Letters6: S-L-A-V-E-Y
In writingabout once in every 46 million words; the 209,386th 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 slavey?

Slavey appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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).

How do you pronounce slavey?

  • UK /ˈsleɪvi/

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

Forms of slavey

  • slaveys plural
  • slavies plural

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

What does slavey mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    colloquialA male servant.

  2. 2

    colloquialA female domestic servant; a maid or maidservant.

noun

as Slavey
  1. 1

    A member of an Athabascan First Nations people indigenous to the region near the Great Slave Lake in western Canada

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

Slavey in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense member of Athabascan people:

LanguageWords
FrenchEsclave

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 slavey come from?

From slave + -y. Piecewise doublet of Slavic.

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

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