servil
[seɾˈβ̞il]
The verdict
“servil” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #36,819. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,819
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que pertenece o concierne a la servidumbre y a los siervos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-servil · servil · Spanish
servil · rank #36,819 · 11 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,819
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH separamos
Nearest frequency peer: separamos (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “servil”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- secano
secano
63,186 corpus weight
- sectario
sectario
63,185 corpus weight
- separamos
separamos
63,183 corpus weight
- servil
servil
63,182 corpus weight
- señoríos
señoríos
63,181 corpus weight
- simbiosis
simbiosis
63,180 corpus weight
What this shows “servil” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | servil |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [seɾˈβ̞il] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “servil”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around servil (IPA [seɾˈβ̞il]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #36,819 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for servil, with forms such as "cervil", "esrvil", and "serbil". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "servir", "sirvió", "servirá", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is servil, spelled S-E-R-V-I-L.
Definition
- 1Que pertenece o concierne a la servidumbre y a los siervos.
- 2Bajo, humilde.
- 3Con una actitud de sumisión que no parece sincera o que rebaja la dignidad personal.
- 4En el primer tercio del siglo XIX, realista, absolutista, partidario de la monarquía.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cervil
- esrvil
- serbil
- serivl
- serrvil
- servill
- servli
- servvil
- sevril
- srevil
- sservil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of servil - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "servil", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).